 Focus prefix: ben= good  beneficiary  benign  benevolent  benefactor  benediction WORDS 6-10Ī doer of good deeds a financial supporter BENEFACTORįRAYER MODEL Definition the recipient of good Image Example When my great grandma died she left everything to her son. rule organized by rank Use your resources to identify the correct definition for each word Once you spell the word match it to its proper definition. WordSense Dictionary: -archy - meaning, definition, synonyms. WORDS 1-5 MINI QUIZ A.ruled by a father figure B.  Focus suffix: archy- ruler  anarchy  monarchy  hierarchy  patriarchy  matriarchy WORDS 1-5

 Focus suffix: archy- ruler  anarchy  monarchy  hierarchy  patriarchy  matriarchy WORDS 1-5.'- Presentation transcript: Suffix Obsession: A Dictionary of All Words Ending in Annual, Ennial, Anthropy, Archy, Cracy, Cide, Culture, Gamy, Gon, Hedron, Lagnia, Latry, Theis by Alan. For example, 'rule by children' might on the model of gerontocracy be styled paidocracy, or on the strength of matriarchy and patriarchy be named paidarchy.Īlso, Quinion's definitions find very little difference between autarchy ('a system of government by one person with absolute power') and autocracy ('rule by one person with absolute power').Presentation on theme: 'VOCABULARY WORD LIST #2 WORDS 1-5. The range of types of rule or government comprehended by English words with each ending is extremely broad, and I don't see any pattern in the choice of one or the other that offers a reliable basis for predicting which ending a new form is more likely to adopt. For example, a monarch (Greek monos, alone or single) is a sovereign head of state, in a type of government called monarchy.Īmong the words Quinion lists in a table headed ' -cracy Government, rule, or influence,' are these:Īristocracy, autocracy, bureaucracy, democracy, gerontocracy, meritocracy, mobocracy, plutocracy, theocracyĪmong the words that Quinion lists in a table headed ' -archy Government or rule' are these:Īnarchy, autarchy, hierarchy, matriarchy, monarchy, oligarchy, patriarchy, synarchyīecause many English speakers when presented with the suffix -archy may think first of monarchy and when presented with the suffix -cracy may think first of democracy, they may suppose that a stronger distinction exists between the tendencies of the two suffixes than actually exists. They correspond to nouns in -arch for a person or people who rule or command in that way.

Words in -archy are abstract nouns for types of government, leadership, or social influence or organization. word for an in-between of matriarchy and patriarchy where the different genders are treated equally (preferably one that includes the suffix archy). Government rule of a particular type a chief or ruler. Many forms ending in -cracy have been coined, though only a small number are at all well known most can mean either a system of influence or rule or a society o ruled, as with democracy, rule through elected representatives a few can also refer to the rulers as a group, as with aristocracy (Greek aristos, best), rule by members of the highest social class. cracy Also -crat, -cratic, and -cratical. Michael Quinion, Ologies and Isms: Word Beginnings and Endings (Oxford, 2002) has this to say about the suffixes: Today both -archy and -cracy are centrally associated with the idea of ruling.

According to Liddell & Scott, An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon (1889), the root word κρατος ( kratos) in ancient Greek meant ' strength, might'-and more generally, ' power' or ' rule, sway, sovereignty.' The same lexicon reports that αρχη ( arche) meant 'a beginning, origin, first cause,' but also ' the first place or power, sovereignty, dominion, command.' The Greek roots thus have considerable overlap, but the connotations of αρχη may have included a stronger sense of hereditary or historical primacy than those of κρατος. Suffix Obsession: A Dictionary of All Words Ending in Annual, Ennial, Anthropy, Archy, Cracy, Cide, Culture, Gamy, Gon, Hedron, Lagnia, Latry, Theis Hardcover.

Words with the suffix archy