| 词汇 | democracy |
| 词源 | democracy [LME] The word democracy was borrowed directly from French but goes back to Greek dēmokratia, from dēmos ‘the people’ and kratia ‘power, rule’. Demos is also the source of demagogue [M17th], where it is combined with agōgos ‘leading’, and epidemic [E17th] which comes from epidēmia ‘the prevalence of disease’ which goes back to epi ‘upon’ and dēmos ‘the people’. |
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