republic

See also: Republic

English

Alternative forms

republick, republique (obsolete)

Etymology

From Middle French republique (“republic”), from Latin rēspūblicā, from rēs (“thing”) + pūblica (“public”); hence literally “the public thing”.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ɹɪˈpʌb.lɪk/, /ɹəˈpʌb.lɪk/
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(Northern England, Ireland) IPA^(key): /ɹɪˈpʊb.lɪk/, /ɹəˈpʊb.lɪk/
Hyphenation: re‧pub‧lic

Noun

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republic (plural republics)

A state where sovereignty rests with the people or their representatives, rather than with a monarch or emperor; a country with no monarchy.
The United States is a republic; the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland is a constitutional monarchy.
- 1834, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter XXIII, in Francesca Carrara. […], volume II, London: Richard Bentley, […], (successor to Henry Colburn), →OCLC, page 256:
  Perhaps the great charm of a republic to the young mind is, the career which it seems to lay open to all, and whose success depends upon personal gifts; while their exercise seems more independent when devoted to the people rather than to the monarch.
- 1910, Emerson Hough, chapter I, in The Purchase Price: Or The Cause of Compromise, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC:
  “[…] We are engaged in a great work, a treatise on our river fortifications, perhaps ? But since when did army officers afford the luxury of amanuenses in this simple republic ? […] ”
(archaic) A state, which may or may not be a monarchy, in which the executive and legislative branches of government are separate.
- 1795, Immanuel Kant, Perpetual Peace: A Philosophical Sketch:
  Republicanism is the political principle of the separation of the executive power (the administration) from the legislative; despotism is that of the autonomous execution by the state of laws which it has itself decreed. […] Therefore, we can say: the smaller the personnel of the government (the smaller the number of rulers), the greater is their representation and the more nearly the constitution approaches to the possibility of republicanism; thus the constitution may be expected by gradual reform finally to raise itself to republicanism […]. None of the ancient so-called "republics" knew this system, and they all finally and inevitably degenerated into despotism under the sovereignty of one, which is the most bearable of all forms of despotism.
One of the subdivisions constituting Russia. See oblast.
The Republic of Udmurtia is west of the Permian Oblast.
One of the subdivisions that made up the former Yugoslavia.

Derived terms

Translations

a type of state

Abkhaz: (definite) ареспублика (arespʼublikʼa)
Afrikaans: republiek (af)
Ainu: レㇲプビリカ (respubirika)
Albanian: republikë (sq) f
Amharic: ሬፑብሊክ (republik)
Antillean Creole: répiblik f, wépiblik f
Martinican Creole: wépiblik f
Arabic: جُمْهُورِيَّة (ar) f (jumhūriyya)
Egyptian Arabic: جمهوريه f

Hijazi Arabic: جُمْهُورِيَّة f (jumhūriyya)

Moroccan Arabic: جُمْهُورِيَّة f
Aragonese: republica f
Armenian: հանրապետություն (hy) (hanrapetutʻyun)
Assamese: প্ৰজাতন্ত্ৰ (prozatontro)
Asturian: república (ast) f
Avar: жумгьурият (žumhurijat)
Azerbaijani: respublika (az), cümhuriyyət, imrək
Bashkir: республика (respublika)
Basque: errepublika
Bavarian: Republik f
Belarusian: рэспу́бліка f (respúblika)
Bengali: প্রজাতন্ত্র (bn) (projatontro), জমহুরিয়ত (bn) (jomhuriẏot)
Breton: republik f
Bulgarian: репу́блика (bg) f (repúblika)
Burmese: သမ္မတနိုင်ငံ (my) (samma.ta.nuingngam)
Buryat: республика (rjespublika), бүгэдэ найрамдаха улас (bügede najramdaxa ulas)
Carpathian Rusyn: респу́бліка f (respúblika)
Catalan: república (ca) f
Chechen: пачхьалкх (pačḥʳalq)
Chinese:
Cantonese: 共和國 / 共和国 (gung⁶ wo⁴ gwok³), 民國 / 民国 (man⁴ gwok³)

Dungan: гунхәгуә (gunhəguə), гунхәгуй (gunhəguy), республика (ri͡əspublika), мингуй (minguy)

Eastern Min: 共和國 / 共和国 (gê̤ṳng-huò-guók), 民國 / 民国 (mìng-guók)

Gan: 共和國 / 共和国 (kung⁵ fo⁴ guet⁶), 民國 / 民国 (min⁴ guet⁶)

Hakka: 共和國 / 共和国 (khiung-fò-koet), 民國 / 民国 (mìn-koet)

Hokkien: 共和國 / 共和国 (kiōng-hô-kok), 民國 / 民国 (zh-min-nan) (bîn-kok)

Jin: 共和國 / 共和国 (gung³ hue¹ gueh⁶), 民國 / 民国 (ming¹ gueh⁶)

Mandarin: 共和國 / 共和国 (zh) (gònghéguó), 民國 / 民国 (zh) (mínguó)

Northern Min: 共和國 / 共和国 (gō̤ng-uǎ-gŏ)

Wu: 共和國 / 共和国 (⁶gon-wu₆-koq₇), 民國 / 民国 (⁶min-koq)

Xiang: 共和國 / 共和国 (gong⁵ ho² gue⁶), 民國 / 民国 (min² gue⁶)
Coptic: ⲙⲉⲧⲙⲏϣ f (metmēš)
Cornish: repoblek f
Corsican: republica f
Ajaccian: ripublica f
Crimean Tatar: cumhuriyet
Cyrillic: джумхуриет
Czech: republika (cs) f
Danish: republik (da) c
Dhivehi: ޖުމްހޫރިއްޔާ (jum̊hūriyyā)
Dutch: republiek (nl) f, gemenebest (nl) n, vrijstaat (nl) m
Erzya: вейсветямо (vejsveťamo)
Esperanto: respubliko
Estonian: vabariik (et)
Extremaduran: repúbrica f
Faroese: lýðveldi n, tjóðveldi n
Finnish: tasavalta (fi)
French: république (fr) f
Middle French: republique f
Friulian: republiche f
Galician: república (gl) f
Georgian: რესპუბლიკა (resṗubliḳa)
German: Republik (de) f
Greek: δημοκρατία (el) f (dimokratía)
Ancient: πολιτεία f (politeía)
Greenlandic: republikki
Gujarati: ગણતંત્ર ? (gaṇtantra)
Haitian Creole: repiblik
Hausa: jamhuriya
Hawaiian: lepupalika
Hebrew: רֶפּוּבְּלִיקָה (he) f (repúblika)
Hindi: गणराज्य (hi) m (gaṇrājya), गणतंत्र (hi) m (gaṇtantra), जम्हूरियत f (jamhūriyat) (rare, Muslim context)
Hungarian: köztársaság (hu)
Icelandic: lýðveldi (is) n
Ido: republiko (io)
Indonesian: republik (id)
Ingrian: respublikka
Irish: poblacht f
Italian: repubblica (it) f
Japanese: 共和国 (ja) (きょうわこく, kyōwakoku), 民国 (ja) (みんこく, minkoku) (special cases)
Kalmyk: республик (respublik)
Kannada: ಗಣರಾಜ್ಯ (kn) (gaṇarājya)
Karelian: tažavalda
Kashubian: repùblika f
Kazakh: республика (respublika), жұмхұрият (jūmxūriät) (dated)
Khakas: республика (respublika)
Khmer: សាធារណរដ្ឋ (saathiərĕəʼnaʼrŏət)
Korean: 공화국(共和國) (ko) (gonghwaguk), 민국(民國) (ko) (min'guk) (dated)
Kurdish:
Central Kurdish: جمھوریەت (cimhuryet)

Northern Kurdish: komar (ku), cimhûriyet (ku), republîk (ku), respublîk (ku)
Kyrgyz: республика (ky) (respublika), жумурият (jumuriyat) (dated), элиш (eliş)
Ladino:
Hebrew: ריפובליקה f

Roman: repúvlika f, repúblika f
Lao: ສາທາລະນະລັດ (sā thā la na lat)
Latin: rēspūblica f, rēs pūblica (la) f
Latvian: republika f
Ligurian: repùbrica
Lithuanian: respublika (lt) f
Livvi: tazavaldu
Low German:
German Low German: Republik f, Republiek f
Lü: ᦷᦂᧂᧈᦷᦆᧉᦷᦅᧉ (k̇ong¹xo²ko²)
Macedonian: република f (republika)
Malagasy: repoblika (mg)
Malay: republik
Malayalam: ഗണതന്ത്രം (gaṇatantraṁ)
Maltese: repubblika f
Manchu: ᡤᡠᠩᡥᡝᡬᠣ (gungheg'o), ᡳᡵᡤᡝᠨ
ᡤᡠᡵᡠᠨ (irgen gurun)
Maori: ripapurika, tūwehe, whenua tūhake
Marathi: प्रजासत्ताक n (prajāsattāk)
Miyako: 共和國 (きぅーわくく, kyūwakuku)
Mongolian:
Cyrillic: бүгд найрамдах улс (bügd najramdax uls), бүгд найрамдах засаг (bügd najramdax zasag)

Mongolian: ᠪᠦᠭᠦᠳᠡ
ᠨᠠᠶ᠋ᠢᠷᠠᠮᠳᠠᠬᠤ
ᠤᠯᠤᠰ (bügüde nayiramdaqu ulus), ᠪᠦᠭᠦᠳᠡ
ᠨᠠᠶ᠋ᠢᠷᠠᠮᠳᠠᠬᠤ
ᠵᠠᠰᠠᠭ (bügüde nayiramdaqu ǰasag)
Neapolitan: repubbreca f
Nepali: गणतन्त्र (ne) (gaṇatantra)
Nivkh: рэспублиӄа (respubliqa)
Norman: républyique f (Jersey)
North Frisian: republiik
Northern Sami: dásseváldi
Northern Sotho: repabliki
Norwegian:
Bokmål: republikk (no) m

Nynorsk: republikk (nn) m
Occitan: republica (oc) f
Odia: ଗଣରାଜ୍ୟ (or) (gaṇarājya)
Okinawan: 共和国 (きょーわくく, kyōwakuku)
Ossetian: республикӕ (respublikæ)
Ottoman Turkish: جمهوریت (cümhuriyet)
Pannonian Rusyn: репу́блика f (repúblika)
Pashto: جمهوريت (ps) m (jamhuryat), ولسي حکومت m (wolësi hokumat), ولسمشریزه
Persian:
Dari: جَمْهُورِی (jamhūrī)

Iranian Persian: جُمْهوری (jomhuri)
Piedmontese: repùblica f
Plautdietsch: Republikj f
Polish: republika (pl) f, rzeczpospolita (pl) f (special cases)
Portuguese: república (pt) f
Punjabi:
Gurmukhi: ਗਣਰਾਜ ? (gaṇrāj), ਗਣਤੰਤਰ m (gaṇtantar)
Quechua: ripuwlika
Romanian: republică (ro) f
Russian: респу́блика (ru) f (respúblika)
Rwanda-Rundi: repubulika, republika
Samogitian: respoblėka f
Sanskrit: गणतन्त्र m (gaṇatantra)
Sardinian: repùblica f, repùbrica f
Saterland Frisian: Republik
Scots: republic
Ulster Scots: republick
Scottish Gaelic: poblachd (gd) f, comh-fhlaitheachd f
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: репу̀блика f

Roman: repùblika (sh) f
Sicilian: ripùbblica f, ripùbbrica f
Silesian: republika f
Sinhalese: ජනරජය ? (janarajaya)
Slovak: republika f
Slovene: republika (sl) f
Solon: uḡeri holēsolara gurung, irḡeng gurung, rēspublik
Sorbian:
Lower Sorbian: republika f

Upper Sorbian: republika f
Sotho: rephaboliki (st)
Southern Altai: республика (respublika)
Spanish: república (es) f
Sranan Tongo: republiek
Swahili: jamhuri (sw)
Swedish: republik (sv) c
Tagalog: republika
Tajik: ҷумҳурият (tg) (jumhuriyat), ҷумҳурӣ (tg) (jumhuri)
Tamil: குடியரசு (ta) (kuṭiyaracu)
Tatar: җөмһүрият (cömhüriyat), республика (respublika)
Telugu: గణతంత్ర (gaṇatantra)
Tetum: repúblika
Thai: สาธารณรัฐ (th) (sǎa-taa-rá-ná-rát)
Tibetan: སྤྱི་མཐུན་རྒྱལ་ཁབ (spyi mthun rgyal khab)
Tigrinya: ሪፓብሊክ f (ripablik)
Tsonga: riphabliki
Tswana: rephaboliki
Turkish: cumhuriyet (tr)
Turkmen: respublika
Tuvan: республика (respublika)
Udmurt: элькун (eľkun)
Ukrainian: респу́бліка (uk) f (respúblika)
Urdu: جَمْہُورِیَہ f (jamhūriya), جَمْہُورِیَت f (jamhūriyat)
Uyghur: جۇمھۇرىيەت (jumhuriyet)
Uzbek: respublika (uz), jumhuriyat (uz) (dated)
Venda: riphabuḽiki
Venetan: repùblica f
Vietnamese: cộng hòa (vi) (共和)
Volapük: repüblik (vo)
Walloon: republike f
Welsh: gweriniaeth (cy) f
West Frisian: republyk c
Western Panjabi: لوکراج (lokrāj)
Yakut: өрөспүүбүлүкэ (öröspüübülüke), республика (respublika)
Yiddish: רעפּובליק f (republik)
Zhuang: gunghozgoz

one of the kinds of parts constituting Russia

Armenian: հանրապետություն (hy) (hanrapetutʻyun)
Bengali: জমহুরিয়ত (bn) (jomhuriẏot)
Catalan: república (ca) f
Chinese:
Mandarin: 共和國 / 共和国 (zh) (gònghéguó)
Czech: republika (cs) f
Dutch: republiek (nl) f, deelrepubliek (nl) f
Estonian: vabariik (et)
Finnish: tasavalta (fi)
French: république (fr) f
German: Republik (de) f, Teilrepublik (de)
Greek: δημοκρατία (el) f (dimokratía)
Icelandic: lýðveldi (is) n
Indonesian: republik (id)
Ingrian: respublikka
Irish: poblacht f
Italian: repubblica (it) f
Kalmyk: таңһч (tañğç)
Latin: respublica f
Low German:
German Low German: Republik f, Deelrepublik f, Republiek f, Deelrepubliek f
Macedonian: република f (republika)
Norwegian:
Bokmål: republikk (no) m, delrepublikk m

Nynorsk: republikk (nn) m, delrepublikk m
Portuguese: república (pt) f
Russian: респу́блика (ru) f (respúblika)
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: репу̀блика f

Roman: repùblika (sh) f
Spanish: república (es) f
Swedish: delrepublik (sv) c
Tatar: җөмһүрият (cömhüriyat)
Udmurt: элькун (eľkun), республика (respubľika)
Volapük: repüblikän, dilarepüblikän
Welsh: gweriniaeth (cy) f

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Breton: ^{(please verify)} republik f
Swahili: ^{(please verify)} jamhuri (sw)

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IPA^(key): [reˈpublik]

Verb

republic

first-person singular present indicative/subjunctive of republica

English

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