ἀριστοκρατία

See also: αριστοκρατία

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From ἄριστος (áristos) +‎ -κρατίᾱ (-kratíā).

Pronunciation

 

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

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

Noun

ἀριστοκρᾰτίᾱ • (aristokrătíā) f (genitive ἀριστοκρᾰτίᾱς); first declension

1. aristocracy

Declension

First declension of ἡ ᾰ̓ρῐστοκρᾰτῐ́ᾱ; τῆς ᾰ̓ρῐστοκρᾰτῐ́ᾱς (Attic)

Case / #	Singular
Nominative	ἡ ᾰ̓ρῐστοκρᾰτῐ́ᾱ hē ărĭstokrătĭ́ā
Genitive	τῆς ᾰ̓ρῐστοκρᾰτῐ́ᾱς tês ărĭstokrătĭ́ās
Dative	τῇ ᾰ̓ρῐστοκρᾰτῐ́ᾳ têi ărĭstokrătĭ́āi
Accusative	τὴν ᾰ̓ρῐστοκρᾰτῐ́ᾱν tḕn ărĭstokrătĭ́ān
Vocative	ᾰ̓ρῐστοκρᾰτῐ́ᾱ ărĭstokrătĭ́ā
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Related terms

• ἀριστοκρατέομαι (aristokratéomai)
• ἀριστοκράτης (aristokrátēs)
• ἀριστοκρατικός (aristokratikós)

Descendants

Descendants, both direct and indirect

• → Greek: αριστοκρατία (aristokratía) (learned)
• → Danish: aristokrati
• → Dutch: aristocratie, aristokratie
  • → Indonesian: aristokrasi
  • → Peranakan Indonesian: aristocratie
• → English: aristocracy
• → French: aristocratie
• → Hungarian: arisztokrácia
• → Lithuanian: aristokrãtija
• → Latvian: aristokrātija
• → Norwegian Bokmål: aristokrati
• → Norwegian Nynorsk: aristokrati
• → Romanian: aristocrație
• → Russian: аристокра́тия (aristokrátija)
• → Serbo-Croatian: aristokràtija
• → Swedish: aristokrati
• → Ukrainian: аристокра́тія (arystokrátija)
• → Yiddish: אַריסטאָקראַטיע (aristokratye)

Further reading

• ἀριστοκρατία in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• ἀριστοκρατία in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2025)
• ἀριστοκρατία, in ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ [Logeion] Dictionaries for Ancient Greek and Latin (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch and Chinese), University of Chicago, since 2011
• “ἀριστοκρατία”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎^[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • aristocracy idem, page 39.