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nepotarchy

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables
nepotarchy
IPA
20
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
1
Syllables
10
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A government run by multiple members of the same family.

Example Sentences

Etymology

From Latin nepōs + -archia, coined by American journalist Richard Dudman in February of 1963. By surface analysis, nepotism + -archy.

Origin

Word Breakdown

Inflected Forms

nepotarchies (plural)

Questions

What does nepotarchy mean?
A government run by multiple members of the same family.
Where does nepotarchy come from?
It is traced to Latin.

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