Demo comes from the Greek demos and means "people." Cracy comes from kratos and means "rule by," so put together you have "rule by the people."
The prefix dem means people. An example would be democracy or democrat.
Democracy is run by the people. The prefix demo means people. This is the way a democracy was designed to run.
Democracy is run by the people. The prefix demo means people. This is the way a democracy was designed to run.
Democracy is run by the people. The prefix demo means people. This is the way a democracy was designed to run.
An example would be, in the word pro-democracy, pro is a prefix.
democracy,democrat,demodulation,demonstrative
"...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
it is literally self explanatory if you know Latin or a little Latin. The prefix mono means one (monotheist, monogamy etc) so that the Monarch is a one man rule the people have no input into the making of the laws at all. The prefix demos means people, ocracy means the people in Greek. The people make the laws and rule in a democracy.
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crac is a greek root word that means government or rule
The prefix -cracy typically indicates a form of government or rule by a specific group or class of people. For example, democracy means rule by the people, aristocracy means rule by the noble class, and bureaucracy means rule by officials in a hierarchical organization.
There is no meaning of this prefix. Some words with this started is cytoplast, cryosis, cystotomy, etc.