democratie
See also: démocratie and democrație
Dutch
Alternative forms
- (before 1996) demokratie
Etymology
Borrowing from French démocratie, from Latin dēmocratia, from Ancient Greek δημοκρᾰτῐ́ᾱ (dēmokratíā).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˌdeː.moː.kraːˈ(t)si/
Audio (file) - Hyphenation: de‧mo‧cra‧tie
- Rhymes: -i
Noun
democratie f (plural democratieën, diminutive democratietje n)
- (uncountable, countable) democracy
- Aan de basis van elke democratie ligt die vrijheid, die in de loop der tijden is bevochten, zei Hare Majesteit de koningin.
- At the basis of each democracy lies that freedom, which in the course of time has been gained, said Her Majesty the queen.
Derived terms
- basisdemocratie
- consensusdemocratie
- dramademocratie
- massademocratie
- participatiedemocratie
- penduledemocratie
- sorrydemocratie
Related terms
- democraat
- democratisch
Descendants
- Afrikaans: demokrasie
- → Indonesian: démokrasi
Middle French
Etymology
First known attestation 1370-1372 in Les Ethiques en françois a translation of Aristotle by Nicolas Oresme, borrowed from Ancient Greek δημοκρατία (dēmokratía)[1].
Noun
democratie f (plural democraties)
- democracy; popular rule
Descendants
- French: démocratie
- → Danish: demokrati n
- → Dutch: democratie f
- Afrikaans: demokrasie
- → Indonesian: démokrasi
- → German: Demokratie f
- → Hebrew: דֵּמוֹקְרַטְיָה f
- → Romanian: democrație f
- → Turkish: demokrasi
- → Norman: démocratie
- → Czech: demokracie
- → English: democracy
- → Amharic: ዴሞክራሲ (demokrasi)
- → Burmese: ဒီမိုကရေစီ (dimuika.reci)
- → Cebuano: demokrasya
- → 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)
References
- Etymology and history of “démocratie”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.