English Explanatory Dictionary

-crat

English dictionary entry

Meanings

suffix
  1. A participant in a specified form of government.
  2. An advocate of a specified form of government.

Pronunciation

/-kɹæt/ LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl--crat.wav LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl--crat.wav

Word forms

-crat -crats

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *kret- Ancient Greek κρᾰ́τος (krắtos)bor. English -crat From Ancient Greek κράτος (krátos, “power, might”), modelled after words of Ancient Greek origin such as democrat and aristocrat. From Proto-Indo-European *kret- (English hard).

Related words

-cracy -cratic

Derived words

aristocrat autocrat bureaucrat cosmocrat gerontocrat meritocrat monocrat plutocrat technocrat thalassocrat democrat mobocrat ochlocrat physiocrat theocrat
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