"democracy" in seven languages
Meaningdemocracy
Spanish
democracia
/demoˈkɾaθja/
fem.learned
French
démocratie
/demɔkʁasi/
fem.learned
Italian
democrazia
/demokratˈtsia/
fem.learned
Portuguese
democracia
/demokɾaˈsiɐ/
fem.learned
Stressed on the i, like Italian democrazia, not on the a as in Spanish.
Romanian
democrație
/demoˈkratsie/
fem.learned
Catalan
democràcia
/dəmuˈkɾasiə/
fem.learned
English
democracy
/dɪˈmɑkɹəsi/
from Latin/French · French démocratie (Greek dēmokratía)
English → ItaliandemocracydemocraziaCognateSame source — inherited, learned or borrowed. You can recognize it.What English and Italian share
The Latin ancestor
DĒMOCRATIAM‘rule of the people (from Greek dēmokratía)’
All six sisters descend from it, unless marked otherwise below.
The story
Note the stress: Spanish democracia stresses the a, Italian democrazia the i, French (as always) the end. -cracy maps to -cracia, -cratie, -crazia.
English relatives: democracy, democrat, epidemic (dêmos 'people')