-archy

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
• 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
• 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