autarchy
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[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈɔːtəki/, /-tɑː-/
Audio (Southern England): (file) - (General American) enPR: ôʹtär'kē, IPA(key): /ˈɔˌtɑɹki/
- Homophone: autarky
- Hyphenation: aut‧archy
Etymology 1
[edit]From Medieval Latin autarchia, from Koine Greek αὐταρχία (autarkhía, “absolute power, sovereignty, autocracy”), from αὔταρχος (aútarkhos, “autocratic”), from αὐτ- (aut-, “self”) + ἄρχω (árkhō, “to rule, govern”).
Noun
[edit]autarchy (countable and uncountable, plural autarchies)
- A condition of absolute power.
- (government) Autocracy (absolute rule by a single person).
- 1964, Jan Morris, “Envoi: State of Being”, in Spain, Faber and Faber, published 2008, →ISBN:
- Like Philip's, Franco's autarchy was shrouded in religiosity—not Christianity alone, but also a sort of dim Wagnerian vision of hero-gods and Valhallas, a gloomy level of devotion on which paganism, Catholicism and the apotheosis of the State could conveniently be mingled.
- (politics) Sovereignty or self-government (national political independence).
- Synonyms: see Thesaurus:government
Usage notes
[edit]Not to be confused with autarky (“personal condition or state of self-reliance; (policy of) national economic self-sufficiency; self-sufficient country or region”), even though the latter word is sometimes also spelled autarchy (see etymology 2).
Derived terms
[edit]Related terms
[edit]Translations
[edit]condition of absolute power
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autocratic government — see autocracy
condition of economic self-sufficiency
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Etymology 2
[edit]See autarky.
Noun
[edit]autarchy (countable and uncountable, plural autarchies)
- Alternative spelling of autarky (“personal condition or state of self-reliance; (policy of) national economic self-sufficiency; self-sufficient country or region”)
Further reading
[edit]- autarchism on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- “autarchy, n.”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
- “autarchy2”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC, page 386, column 1.
- William Dwight Whitney and Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1914), “autarchy”, in The Century Dictionary: An Encyclopedic Lexicon of the English Language, revised edition, volume I, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC, page 386, column 1.
- “autarchy”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
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