kakistocracy
英[,kækɪ'stɒkrəsɪ]美[,kækəs'tɑkrəsi]
- n. 恶人政治
中文词源
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.
英文词源
- 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.