English
mortocracy
Mortocracy comes from Latin mors ‘death’, and goes back to Proto-Indo-European *mer- ‘to die’.
- Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*mer-‘to die’reconstructed
- Proto-Indo-European, derivedc. 4500–2500 BCE*mértis‘death’reconstructed
- Proto-Italicc. 1500–700 BCE*mortis‘death’reconstructed
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEmors‘death’
- Englishearliest quotation 2000mortocracy
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed
Lineage
- Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*mer-‘to die’reconstructed
- Proto-Indo-European, derivedc. 4500–2500 BCE*mértis‘death’reconstructed
- Proto-Italicc. 1500–700 BCE*mortis‘death’reconstructed
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEmors‘death’
- Englishearliest quotation 2000mortocracy
Earliest quotation: 2000, John Jacob Nutter, The CIA's Black Ops: “In the 1970s and 1980s El Salvador was ruled…”
Formed from -cracy
Linked words
through Proto-Indo-European *mer- ‘to die’
remember, march, murder, marine, nightmare, mere, maritime, marsh, mare, muller, mara, mortar, immortality, moor, morbid, ambrosia, morn, marinate, mortuary, maar, marinara, mortally, moribund, cormorant, mortier, 55 more
through Proto-Italic *mortis ‘death’
through Latin mors ‘death’
Today it means
noun Rule or government based on death in some way.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Proto-Indo-European *mer- / mortocracy