aristocrat
English
Etymology
Category:English terms derived from Proto-Indo-European#ARISTOCRATCategory:English terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *h₂er-#ARISTOCRATFrom FrenchCategory:English terms borrowed from French#ARISTOCRATCategory:English terms derived from French#ARISTOCRAT aristocrate (“aristocrat”), attested once in the 16th century but recoined in the Revolutionary era, from aristocratie (“aristocracy”), from Medieval LatinCategory:English terms derived from Medieval Latin#ARISTOCRAT aristocratia, from Ancient GreekCategory:English terms derived from Ancient Greek#ARISTOCRAT ἀριστοκρατία (aristokratía), from ἄριστος (áristos, “best”) (compare Old English ar) + κράτος (krátos, “rule”). By surface analysis, aristo- + -cratCategory:English terms prefixed with aristo-#CRATCategory:English terms suffixed with -crat#ARISTOCRAT.
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /ˈæɹɪstəˌkɹæt/Category:English 4-syllable words#ARISTOCRATCategory:English terms with IPA pronunciation#ARISTOCRAT
Category:English terms with audio pronunciation#ARISTOCRATAudio (Southern England): (file) - (US) IPA(key): /əˈɹɪstəˌkɹæt/Category:English 4-syllable words#ARISTOCRATCategory:English terms with IPA pronunciation#ARISTOCRAT
Noun
aristocrat (plural aristocrats)Category:English lemmas#ARISTOCRATCategory:English nouns#ARISTOCRATCategory:English countable nouns#ARISTOCRATCategory:English entries with incorrect language header#ARISTOCRATCategory:Pages with entries#ARISTOCRATCategory:Pages with 2 entries#ARISTOCRAT
- One of the aristocracy, nobility, or people of rank in a community; one of a ruling class; a noble (originally in Revolutionary France).
- 2023 March 13, Lianne Kolirin, “Skeletal remains of Roman aristocrat discovered in hidden lead coffin”, in CNN:
- The remains of a Roman aristocrat have been unearthed by archaeologists in northern England.Category:English terms with quotations#ARISTOCRAT
- 2025 June 27, Michael M. Grynbaum, “The Concorde-and-Caviar Era of Condé Nast, When Magazines Ruled the Earth”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, archived from the original on 27 June 2025:
- Magazines kept aristocrats on the payroll to facilitate access to jet-set playgrounds like Corfu and Mustique.Category:English terms with quotations#ARISTOCRAT
- A proponent of aristocracy; an advocate of aristocratic government.
- 1974: Plato (author) and Desmond Lee (translator), The Republic (2nd edition, revised; Penguin Classics; →ISBN, Translator’s Introduction, pages 51 and 53:
- Professor Fite, in The Platonic Legend, deprecates earlier idealization, and finds Plato to be an aristocrat, something of a snob, and the advocate of a restrictively organized society.
- […]
- Plato was, as has so often been observed, temperamentally an aristocrat. And he believed that the qualities needed in his rulers were, in general, hereditary, and that given knowledge and opportunity you could deliberately breed for them.
- 1974: Plato (author) and Desmond Lee (translator), The Republic (2nd edition, revised; Penguin Classics; →ISBN, Translator’s Introduction, pages 51 and 53:
- (cryptographyCategory:en:Cryptography#ARISTOCRAT) A cipher in which the original punctuation and spacing are retained.
- Coordinate term: patristocrat
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- See also Thesaurus:nobleman
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Category:English terms suffixed with -crat#ARISTOCRAT Category:en:Nobility#ARISTOCRATRomanian
Etymology
Borrowed from FrenchCategory:Romanian terms borrowed from French#ARISTOCRATCategory:Romanian terms derived from French#ARISTOCRAT aristocrate.
Noun
aristocrat m (plural aristocrați, feminine equivalent aristocrată)Category:Romanian lemmas#ARISTOCRATCategory:Romanian nouns#ARISTOCRATCategory:Romanian nouns with red links in their headword lines#ARISTOCRATCategory:Romanian countable nouns#ARISTOCRATCategory:Romanian entries with incorrect language header#ARISTOCRATCategory:Romanian masculine nouns#ARISTOCRATCategory:Pages with entries#ARISTOCRATCategory:Pages with 2 entries#ARISTOCRAT
Declension
| singular | plural | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| indefinite | definite | indefinite | definite | ||
| nominative-accusative | aristocrat | aristocratul | aristocrați | aristocrații | |
| genitive-dative | aristocrat | aristocratului | aristocrați | aristocraților | |
| vocative | aristocratule | aristocraților | |||