kakistocracy
英 [,k?k?'st?kr?s?]
美[,k?k?s'tɑkr?si]
- n. 惡人政治
中文詞源
kakistocracy 惡人執(zhí)政，惡人當(dāng)政
由aristocracy杜撰出來的一個(gè)詞，來自希臘語kakistos,最壞的，來自kakos,壞的，詞源同cacophony,-ist,最高級(jí)后綴。-cracy,執(zhí)政，詞源同democracy.
英文詞源
- 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.