δημοκρατία

• δᾱμοκρᾰτίᾱ (dāmokrătíā) — Doric

Derived from δῆμος (dêmos, “common people", "assembly of the people”) +‎ -κρατία (-kratía, “power”, “rule”).

δημοκρᾰτῐ́ᾱ • (dēmokrătĭ́ā) f (genitive δημοκρᾰτῐ́ᾱς); first declension

1. (politics, uncountable) democracy, popular government
2. (countable) a democratic government
   • 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 6.43.3:

     Τοὺς γὰρ τυράννους τῶν Ἰώνων καταπαύσας πάντας ὁ Μαρδόνιος δημοκρατίας κατίστα ἐς τὰς πόλιας.

     Toùs gàr turánnous tôn Iṓnōn katapaúsas pántas ho Mardónios dēmokratías katísta es tàs pólias.

     • 1910 translation by George Rawlinson

       Mardonius put down all the despots throughout Ionia, and in lieu of them established democracies

   • 46 CE – 120 CE, Plutarch, Banquet of the Seven Sages 154e:

     Ὁ Βίας ἔφησε κρατίστην εἶναι δημοκρατίαν ἐν ᾗ πάντες ὡς τύραννον φοβοῦνται τὸν νόμον.

     Ho Bías éphēse kratístēn eînai dēmokratían en hēî pántes hōs túrannon phoboûntai tòn nómon.

     Bias said that the strongest democracy is that wherein all fear the law as their tyrant.

3. inflection of δημοκρᾰτῐ́ᾱ (dēmokrătĭ́ā):
   1. nominative/vocative singular
   2. nominative/accusative/vocative dual

• δημοκρᾰτέω/-ῶ, δημοκρᾰτέομαι/-οῦμαι
• Δημοκρᾰτῐ́ᾱ (Dēmokrătĭ́ā)
• δημοκρᾰτῐκός (dēmokrătĭkós)

• Greek: δημοκρατία f (dimokratía)
• Latin: dēmocratia (Mediaeval)
  • Catalan: democràcia
  • Middle French: democratie
    • French: démocratie
      • Haitian Creole: demokrasi
      • → Danish: demokrati n
      • → Dutch: democratie f, demokratie (before 1996)
        • Afrikaans: demokrasie
        • → Malay: demokrasi

          → Indonesian: démokrasi

        • → Peranakan Indonesian: democratie
      • → German: Demokratie f
      • → Hebrew: דֵּמוֹקְרַטְיָה f
      • → Persian: دموکراسی (demokrâsi)
      • → Romanian: democrație f
      • → Turkish: demokrasi
    • → Norman: démocratie
    • → Czech: demokracie
    • → English: democracy
      • → Amharic: ዴሞክራሲ (demokrasi)
      • → Burmese: ဒီမိုကရေစီ (dimuika.reci)
      • → Chinese: 得莫克拉西 (démòkèlāxī), 德謨克拉西 / 德谟克拉西 (démókèlāxī)
      • → Malay: demokrasi
      • → S'gaw Karen: ဒံၣ်မိၣ်ခြ့ၣ်စံၣ် (deè moh̀ khraỳ seè)
      • → Swahili: demokrasia
      • → Western Kayah: ꤘꤟꤤ꤬ꤗꤥ꤬ꤊꤚꤢꤩ꤬ꤎꤤ꤬ (dì̤mòkrèsì)
  • Italian: democrazia
  • → Norwegian Bokmål: demokrati
  • → Norwegian Nynorsk: demokrati
  • Portuguese: democracia
  • Sicilian: dimucrazzìa
  • Spanish: democracia
  • → Swedish: demokrati
• Russian: демокра́тия f (demokrátija) (see there for further descendants)

• ἰσονομία (isonomía)

• “δημοκρατία”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “δημοκρατία”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• δημοκρατία in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• δημοκρατία in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2025)
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎^[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • commonwealth idem, page 149.
  • democracy idem, page 209.
  • republic idem, page 699.

From Ancient Greek δημοκρᾰτῐ́ᾱ (dēmokrătĭ́ā, “democracy, popular government”). By surface analysis, δημο- (dimo-, “from δῆμος the people”) +‎ -κρατία (-kratía, “from κράτος strength; dominion, state”).

• IPA^(key): /ði.mo.kɾaˈti.a/

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• Hyphenation: δη‧μο‧κρα‧τί‧α

δημοκρατία • (dimokratía) f (plural δημοκρατίες)

1. democracy
2. republic

   Ελληνική Δημοκρατία ― Ellinikí Dimokratía ― Hellenic Republic

• Δημοκρατία των Σκοπίων f (Dimokratía ton Skopíon, “Republic of Skopje”)
• Ελληνική Δημοκρατία f (Ellinikí Dimokratía, “Hellenic Republic”)
• Κεντροαφρικανική Δημοκρατία f (Kentroafrikanikí Dimokratía, “Central African Republic”)

• see: δήμος m (dímos, “municipality, the people”)

• δημοκρατία on the Greek Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^el