Borrowed fromFrenchautocrate, itself fromAncient Greekαὐτοκρατής(autokratḗs,“sovereign”), fromαὐτο-(auto-,“self”) (combinatory form ofαὐτός(autós)) +κρατία(kratía,“rule”) (fromκράτος(krátos,“strength, power”)). Bysurface analysis,auto- +-crat.
autocrat (pluralautocrats)
- Anabsoluteruler withinfinitepower.
- Synonyms:autocrator,despot,dictator,monarch,tyrant,strongman
1837,L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], “A Secretaryship”, inEthel Churchill: Or, The Two Brides. […], volume III, London:Henry Colburn, […],→OCLC,page131:Your salary is high; you are to have apartments in the house; and to be theautocrat of the library, where, I shrewdly suspect, your reign will be undisturbed.
2022 August 2,Nancy Pelosi, “Nancy Pelosi: Why I’m leading a congressional delegation to Taiwan”, inThe Washington Post[1], archived fromthe original on02 August 2022, Opinion:Indeed, we take this trip at a time when the world faces a choice between autocracy and democracy. As Russia wages its premeditated, illegal war against Ukraine, killing thousands of innocents — even children — it is essential that America and our allies make clear that we never give in toautocrats.
- For more quotations using this term, seeCitations:autocrat.
- A title borne by some such monarchs, as in Byzantium and tsarist Russia.
- Until the 20th century, afavorable description of aruler who was connected with the concept of lack ofconflicts of interest and an indication ofgrandeur andpower.
ruler with absolute power
- Albanian:autokrat (sq) m
- Arabic:مُسْتَبِدّ m(mustabidd),جَبَّار m(jabbār)
- Armenian:ինքնակալ (hy)(inkʻnakal)
- Azerbaijani:avtokrat
- Belarusian:аўтакра́т m(aŭtakrát),аўтакра́тка f(aŭtakrátka),самаўла́дца m(samaŭládca),самадзе́ржац m(samadzjéržac)
- Bulgarian:автокра́т (bg) m(avtokrát),автокра́тка f(avtokrátka),самодържа́вец m(samodǎržávec)
- Burmese:သက်ဦးဆံပိုင် (my)(sak-u:hcampuing)
- Catalan:autòcrata (ca) m orf
- Chinese:
- Mandarin:獨裁者 /独裁者 (zh)(dúcáizhě)
- Czech:samovládce (cs) m,autokrat (cs) m
- Danish:autokrat c
- Dutch:autocraat (nl) m,alleenheerser (nl) m
- Esperanto:aŭtokrato
- Estonian:autokraat
- Faroese:einaveldisharri m,einaræðisharri m
- Finnish:itsevaltias (fi)
- French:autocrate (fr) m orf
- Georgian:ავტოკრატი(avṭoḳraṭi)
- German:Autokrat (de) m,Autokratin (de) f
- Greek:δεσπότης (el) m(despótis)
- Hebrew:אוטוֹקְרָט (he) m(aotokrát)
- Hindi:तानाशाह (hi) m(tānāśāh)
- Hungarian:zsarnok (hu)
- Ido:autokrato (io)
- Indonesian:autokrat (id)
- Irish:uathlathaí m
- Italian:autocrate (it) m
- Japanese:独裁者 (ja)(どくさいしゃ, dokusaisha)
- Kazakh:автократ(avtokrat)
- Khmer:អត្តាធិបតី(ʼattaathipaʼdəy)
- Korean:독재자(獨裁者) (ko)(dokjaeja)
- Kyrgyz:автократ(avtokrat)
- Lao:ຜະເດັດການ(pha det kān)
- Latvian:autokrāts m,patvaldnieks m
- Lithuanian:autokratas m,autokratė f
- Macedonian:автокра́т m(avtokrát),автокра́тка f(avtokrátka),самовласник m(samovlasnik)
- Malay:autokrat
- Mongolian:
- Cyrillic:дарангуйлагч (mn)(darangujlagč)
- Mongolian:ᠳᠠᠷᠤᠩᠭᠤᠢᠯᠠᠭᠴᠢ(darungɣuilaɣči)
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål:autokrat m
- Persian:خدایگان (fa)(xodâygân),خداوندگار (fa)(xodâvandgâr),خداوند (fa)(xodâvand),خودکامه (fa)(xodkâme),مستبد (fa)(mostabedd)
- Polish:autokrata (pl) m,autokratka (pl) f,samowładca m,samowładczyni f
- Portuguese:autocrata (pt) m orf
- Romanian:autocrat (ro) m
- Russian:автокра́т (ru) m(avtokrát),самоде́ржец (ru) m(samodéržec),самодержа́вец (ru) m(samoderžávec)
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic:самодр̀жац m,самовла̀да̄р m,ауто̀кра̄т m
- Roman:samodr̀žac (sh) m,samovlàdār (sh) m,autòkrāt (sh) m
- Slovak:autokrat m,samovládca m
- Slovene:avtokrat m,avtokratinja f
- Spanish:autócrata (es) m
- Swedish:autokrat (sv) c,självhärskare (sv) c,envåldshärskare (sv) c
- Tajik:автократ(avtokrat),мустабид(mustabid)
- Thai:เผด็จการ (th)(pà-dèt-gaan)
- Turkish:otokrat (tr)
- Turkmen:awtokrat
- Ukrainian:автокра́т (uk) m(avtokrát),автокра́тка f(avtokrátka),самоде́ржець m(samodéržecʹ),самодержа́вець m(samoderžávecʹ)
- Uzbek:avtokrat
- Vietnamese:ngườichuyênquyền
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Borrowed fromFrenchautocrate, itself fromAncient Greekαὐτοκρατής(autokratḗs,“sovereign”), fromαὐτο-(auto-,“self”) (combinatory form ofαὐτός(autós)) +κρατία(kratía,“rule”) (fromκράτος(krátos,“strength, power”)).
autocrat m (pluralautocrați)
- autocrat
