democrazia
Appearance
Aragonese
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Medieval Latin democratia, from Ancient Greek δημοκρατία (dēmokratía).
Noun
[edit]democrazia f (plural democrazias)
- Superseded spelling of democracia (“democracy”).
Italian
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]- democratia (obsolete spelling)
Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from Medieval Latin democratia, from Ancient Greek δημοκρατίᾱ (dēmokratíā). By surface analysis, demo- + -crazia.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]democrazia f (plural democrazie)
- democracy
- 1585, Tommaso Garzoni, “De' filosofi in genere, et in particolare de' fisici, etici o morali, economici, politici, consiglieri o secretarî, e metafisici”, in La piazza universale di tutte le professioni del mondo, e nobili et ignobili[1], Venice: Gio[vanni] Battista Somasco, Polibio, page 230:
- quando la moltitudine ingiuſtamente oppreſſa, tratta dall’ira, & ſpinta dal furore, ſi delibera vendicare gli oltraggi riceuuti, ſubito ne naſce la Democratia, cioè l’amministratione del popolo
- [quando la moltitudine ingiustamente oppressa, tratta dall'ira, e spinta dal furore, si delibera vendicare gli oltraggi ricevuti, subito ne nasce la democrazia, cioè l'amministrazione del popolo]
- When the unfairly oppressed masses — moved by rage, and pushed by wrath — decide to take revenge for the wrongs done against them; from there, democracy (that is, the rule of the people) is soon born
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