English
aristarchy
Aristarchy comes from Ancient Greek ἄριστος ‘best’.
- Ancient Greekc. 800–300 BCEἄριστοςáristos‘best’
- Englishearliest quotation 1838aristarchy
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed
Earlier history uncertain.
Lineage
- Ancient Greekc. 800–300 BCEἄριστοςáristos‘best’
- Englishearliest quotation 1838aristarchy
Earliest quotation: 1838, B. H. Roberts: “All good and wholesome laws, virtue and truth above…”
Linked words
through Proto-Indo-European *h₂er- ‘to fit, be suitable’
order, reason, ready, rate, art, article, army, arm, ratio, ordinary, artist, alarm, harmony, coordination, coordinate, armor, subordinate, ordination, articulate, ornament, ornate, harmonic, inertia, arthritis, arithmetic, inert, adorn, harmonious, articulation, artisan, ordinate, armament, anarchy, ordinator, ordinal, armadillo, harmonize, ordain, artifice, rta, 79 more
through Proto-Indo-European *h₂éristos ‘fittest, most fitting, most suitable’
through Ancient Greek ἄριστος ‘best’
Today it means
noun Government by the best people.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Ancient Greek ἄριστος / aristarchy