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kakistocracy的意思

kakistocracy

英 [,kækɪ'stɒkrəsɪ] 美 [,kækəs'tɑkrəsi]
  • n. 恶人政治

kakistocracy

中文词源


kakistocracy 恶人执政,恶人当政

由aristocracy杜撰出来的一个词,来自希腊语kakistos,最坏的,来自kakos,坏的,词源同cacophony,-ist,最高级后缀。-cracy,执政,词源同democracy.

英文词源


kakistocracy (n.)
1829, "government by the worst element of a society," coined on analogy of its opposite, aristocracy, from Greek kakistos "worst," superlative of kakos "bad" (which perhaps is related to the general IE word for "defecate;" see caco-) + -cracy.