πλουτοκρατία

Ancient Greek

Etymology

πλοῦτος (ploûtos, “wealth”) +‎ -κρᾰτῐ́ᾱ (-kratíā, “form of government”)

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /pluː.to.kra.tí.aː/ → /plu.to.kraˈti.a/ → /plu.to.kraˈti.a/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /pluː.to.kra.tí.aː/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /plu.to.kraˈti.a/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /plu.to.kraˈti.a/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /plu.to.kraˈti.a/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /plu.to.kraˈti.a/

Noun

πλουτοκρᾰτῐ́ᾱ • (ploutokratíā) f (genitive πλουτοκρᾰτῐ́ᾱς); first declension

1. An oligarchy of wealth
2. A plutocracy

Inflection

First declension of ἡ πλουτοκρᾰτῐ́ᾱ; τῆς πλουτοκρᾰτῐ́ᾱς (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ πλουτοκρᾰτῐ́ᾱ hē ploutokratíā	τὼ πλουτοκρᾰτῐ́ᾱ tṑ ploutokratíā	αἱ πλουτοκρᾰτῐ́αι hai ploutokratíai
Genitive	τῆς πλουτοκρᾰτῐ́ᾱς tês ploutokratíās	τοῖν πλουτοκρᾰτῐ́αιν toîn ploutokratíain	τῶν πλουτοκρᾰτῐῶν tôn ploutokratiôn
Dative	τῇ πλουτοκρᾰτῐ́ᾳ têi ploutokratíāi	τοῖν πλουτοκρᾰτῐ́αιν toîn ploutokratíain	ταῖς πλουτοκρᾰτῐ́αις taîs ploutokratíais
Accusative	τὴν πλουτοκρᾰτῐ́ᾱν tḕn ploutokratíān	τὼ πλουτοκρᾰτῐ́ᾱ tṑ ploutokratíā	τᾱ̀ς πλουτοκρᾰτῐ́ᾱς tā̀s ploutokratíās
Vocative	πλουτοκρᾰτῐ́ᾱ ploutokratíā	πλουτοκρᾰτῐ́ᾱ ploutokratíā	πλουτοκρᾰτῐ́αι ploutokratíai
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Descendants

• English: plutocracy
• Greek: πλουτοκρατία (ploutokratía)
• Russian: плутокра́тия f (plutokrátija)

References

• “πλουτοκρατία”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “πλουτοκρατία”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers

Greek

Etymology

From Ancient Greek πλουτοκρατία (ploutokratía). Equivalent to πλούτος (ploútos, “wealth”) +‎ -κρατία (-kratía, “rule”).

Noun

πλουτοκρατία • (ploutokratía) f (uncountable)

1. plutocracy (rule by the wealthy)

Declension

  πλουτοκρατία

case     \     number	singular
nominative	πλουτοκρατία •
genitive	πλουτοκρατίας •
accusative	πλουτοκρατία •
vocative	πλουτοκρατία •

Further reading

• πλουτοκρατία on the Greek Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^el