-archy
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The English suffix -archy (from Greek αρχη ruler) denotes leadership and government. See Political philosophy and politics.
Governments
- anarchy—rule by none
- andrarchy—rule by men
- biarchy, diarchy, duarchy, dyarchy—rule by 2
- chiliarchy—rule by 1000
- cryptarchy—secret rule
- decarchy—rule by 10
- dodecarchy—rule by 12
- ecclesiarchy—rule by a church
- exarchy—rule by a bishop or bishops
- gynarchy—rule by women
- hecatontarchy—rule by 100
- hendecarchy—rule by 11
- heptarchy—rule by 7
- hexarchy—rule by 6
- kritarchy—rule by a judge or judges
- matriarchy—rule by mothers or women
- monarchy, autarchy—rule by 1
- myriarchy—rule by 10,000
- octarchy—rule by 8
- oligarchy—rule by a few
- paedarchy—rule by children
- panarchy—universal rule
- pantarchy—rule by all
- paparchy—rule by a pope
- parsonarchy, hierarchy—rule by priests
- patriarchy—rule by fathers or men
- pentarchy—rule by 5
- phylarchy—rule by a class or tribe
- plutarchy—rule by the wealthy
- polyarchy—rule by many
- terarchy—(fictional) rule by a monster or monsters
- tetrarchy—rule by 4
- thearchy—rule by God or gods
- triacontarchy—rule by 30
- triarchy, tritarchy—rule by 3
- whiggarchy—rule by members of the Whig party
