דמוקרטיה
Hebrew (Modern Ashkenazic)
/demoˈkratja/
noun
Definitions
- (uncountable) Democracy: rule by the people, as a form of government.
- (countable) A democracy: a state, or similar entity, whose government takes the form of rule by the people.
Etymology
Derived from French démocratie derived from Latin dēmocratia derived from Ancient Greek δημοκρατία.
Origin
Ancient Greek
δημοκρατία
Gloss
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- demokratia Finnish
- democratia Latin
- dēmocratia Latin
- Demokratie German
- democratie Dutch, Flemish
- démocratie French
- démocratique French
- démocratiser French
- democracia Spanish, Castilian
- δημοκρατία Ancient Greek
- δημοκρᾰτῐ́ᾱ Ancient Greek
- δῆμος Ancient Greek
- *kret- Proto-Indo-European
- demokrati Norwegian Bokmål
- demokrati Swedish
- demokrati Norwegian Nynorsk
- demokrati Danish
- demokratio Esperanto
- democratie Middle French
- demokraatia Estonian
- democratia ML