democratia
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Interlingua
Noun
democratia (plural democratias)
Related terms
Latin
Etymology
From the Ancient Greek δημοκρᾰτῐ́ᾱ (dēmokratíā, “democracy”, “popular government”).
Pronunciation
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /deː.moˈkra.ti.a/,
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /de.moˈkrat.t͡si.a/,
Noun
dēmocratia f (genitive dēmocratiae); first declension
Declension
First-declension noun.
| singular | plural | |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | dēmocratia | dēmocratiae |
| genitive | dēmocratiae | dēmocratiārum |
| dative | dēmocratiae | dēmocratiīs |
| accusative | dēmocratiam | dēmocratiās |
| ablative | dēmocratiā | dēmocratiīs |
| vocative | dēmocratia | dēmocratiae |
Related terms
Descendants
- Middle French: democratie
- French: démocratie
- → 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)
- French: démocratie
- Italian: democrazia
- Portuguese: democracia
- Sicilian: dimucrazzìa
- Spanish: democracia
- Norwegian Bokmål: demokrati
- Norwegian Nynorsk: demokrati
- Swedish: demokrati
References
- dēmocrătĭa in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- “democratia”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
- democratia in Ramminger, Johann (2016 July 16 (last accessed)) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700, pre-publication website, 2005-2016
- “democratia”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin
- R. E. Latham, D. R. Howlett, & R. K. Ashdowne, editors (1975–2013), “democratia”, in Dictionary of Medieval Latin from British Sources, London: Oxford University Press for the British Academy, →ISBN, →OCLC