• Tiresia@slrpnk.net
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          4 hours ago

          Mixing Latin and Greek roots? You sociopath1.

          Yes, pedocracies are ruled by pedos; the Greek word for ‘child’. See also Pedagogy (teaching children), pediatrics (medicine for children), and pedophily (sexual attraction to children).

          A society ruled by pedophiles would be a pedophilocracy. From the Greek words ‘pedos’ (child), ‘philia’ (lust), and ‘cratos’ (rule). Like aristocracy (rule by the best), democracy (rule by the people), or autocracy (rule by oneself).


          1: from Latin ‘socius’ (comrade) and Greek ‘pathos’ (caring).