kakistocracy
英 [,kækɪ'stɒkrəsɪ]
美 [,kækəs'tɑkrəsi]
kakistocracy 恶人执政，恶人当政由aristocracy杜撰出来的一个词，来自希腊语kakistos,最坏的，来自kakos,坏的，词源同cacophony,-ist,最高级后缀。-cracy,执政，词源同democracy.
- 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.
