词根词缀：-crat, -cracy, -cratic, -cratism, -cratically, -cracies

【来源及含义】Greek: a suffix; to govern, to rule; government, strength, power, might, authority

【相关词根词缀】Cross references of word families related directly, or indirectly, to: "master, lead, leading, ruler, ruling, govern": -agogic; agon-; arch-; dom-; gov-; magist-; poten-; regi-; tyran-.

【同源单词】adhocracy, albocracy, aleatocracy, androcracy, androcratic, anemocracy

词根词缀：psepho-, pseph-

【来源及含义】Greek > Latin: pebble/pebbles, stone/stones; election; vote

【相关描述】To cast one's vote with a pebble, to count, reckon; from small stone, pebble [used in counting or voting]. Pebbles were used in ancient Greece for casting votes, and so psephos came to metaphorically mean, "vote".

【同源单词】isopsephic, psephism, psephite, psephocracy, psephocrat, psephograph