Democracy - government by the peopleTheocracy - government by a dietyAutocracy - government by the supreme power of one personAristocracy - government by the eliteMobocracy - rule of the mobBureaucracy - government run by a non-elected group of specialists
Cracy means rule and it's from Greek. Here are some words: autocracy, meritocracy and democracy.
The suffix "-cracy" means rule or government by a specific group of people. It is commonly used in words like democracy (rule by the people), aristocracy (rule by the nobility), and autocracy (rule by a single individual).
The suffix "-archy" refers to a system of government or rule, while the suffix "-cracy" refers to a form of government or rule by a specific group or class of people.
δημο- (demo) means the people. ex. democracy demo-cracy the people's power (-cracy from cratos/kratos power)
Some words that end in cracy are democracy, monocracy, and autocracy. More words are plutocracy, aristocracy, meritocracy, and technocracy.
democracy, autocracy, aristocracy, theocracy, meritocracy, plutocracy, bureaucracy, mobocracy
Democracy - government by the peopleTheocracy - government by a dietyAutocracy - government by the supreme power of one personAristocracy - government by the eliteMobocracy - rule of the mobBureaucracy - government run by a non-elected group of specialists
"...cracy" is NOT a prefix (at the beginning of a word), it is a SUFFIX (at the end of a word). as in democracy, theocracy, plutocracy
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Cracy means rule and it's from Greek. Here are some words: autocracy, meritocracy and democracy.
Arist meaning gay and cracy meaning murderer
The root "cracy" means "rule" or "government." It is commonly seen in words like democracy (rule by the people), aristocracy (rule by the elite), and meritocracy (rule by the competent).
The suffix "-cracy" means rule or government by a specific group of people. It is commonly used in words like democracy (rule by the people), aristocracy (rule by the nobility), and autocracy (rule by a single individual).
Demos, greek - the people cracy.. probably also from greek - ruling
The suffix of "democracy" is "-cracy." In linguistic terms, a suffix is an affix that is added to the end of a word to create a new word or alter the meaning of the original word. In this case, "-cracy" is derived from the Greek word "kratos," meaning "power" or "rule," so "democracy" literally means "rule by the people."
It means rule