-crat
suffixUS, UK /-kɹæt/
Etymology From Ancient Greek κράτος (krátos, “power, might”), modelled after words of Ancient Greek origin such as democrat and aristocrat. From Proto-Indo-European *kret- (English hard).
1
Morpheme A participant in a specified form of government.
2
Morpheme An advocate of a specified form of government.
- Derived terms
- aristocrat, autocrat, bureaucrat, cosmocrat, gerontocrat, meritocrat, monocrat, plutocrat, technocrat, thalassocrat, democrat, mobocrat, ochlocrat, physiocrat, theocrat