supremacy

English

Etymology

From supreme +‎ -acy (a variant of -cy). Compare with supremity and New Latin suprematia.

Noun

supremacy (usually uncountable, plural supremacies)

1. The quality of being supreme.
2. Power over all others.
3. (in combination) The ideology that the specified group is superior to others or should have supreme power over them.

   white supremacy

   black supremacy

Derived terms

• air supremacy
• papal supremacy
• quantum supremacy
• supremacism
• white supremacy

 

Descendants

• → French: suprématie
  • → Portuguese: supremacia
  • → Romanian: supremație
  • → Spanish: supremacía
  • → Galician: supremacía

Derived terms

• supremacist
• supremacism

Translations

quality of being supreme

• Catalan: supremacia (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 霸權／霸权 (zh) (bàquán), 霸权 (zh) (bàquán)

• Dutch: suprematie (nl) f
• Finnish: ylemmyys (fi), ylivertaisuus
• French: suprématie (fr) f
• Galician: supremacía f
• Georgian: უპირატესობა (uṗiraṭesoba), ბატონობა (baṭonoba)
• German: Vorherrschaft (de) f
• Greek: υπεροχή (el) f (yperochí), κύρος (el) n (kýros), κυριαρχία (el) f (kyriarchía)
• Irish: ardréim f
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• Italian: supremazia (it) f
• Japanese: 主権 (ja) (しゅけん, shuken)
• Korean: 최고 (ko) (choego)
• Polish: supremacja (pl) f
• Portuguese: supremacia (pt) f
• Romanian: supremație (ro) f
• Russian: превосхо́дство (ru) n (prevosxódstvo), госпо́дство (ru) n (gospódstvo)
• Spanish: supremacía f
• Turkish: üstünlük (tr)

authority over all others

• Finnish: ylemmyys (fi), ylivalta
• Galician: supremacía f
• Georgian: უპირატესობა (uṗiraṭesoba), ბატონობა (baṭonoba)
• Irish: ardcheannas m, ceannas m
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• Portuguese: supremacia (pt) f
• Russian: превосхо́дство (ru) (prevosxódstvo)
• Sanskrit: क्षत्र (sa) n (kṣatra)
• Spanish: supremacía f

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Translations to be checked

• Esperanto: ^{(please verify)} ĉefeco
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References

• “supremacy”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.