The story
- Proto-Indo-European*péh₂wr̥
- Proto-Hellenic*pāwər
- Ancient Greekπῦρ (pûr)
- Ancient Greekπῠρρός (pŭrrhós)
- Latinburrus
- Latinburra
- Old French*bure
- Old Frenchburel
- Frenchbureau
- Proto-Indo-European*kret-
- Ancient Greekκρᾰ́τος (krắtos)
- Frenchbureaucratie
- Frenchbureaucrate
- Frenchbureaucratie
- Frenchbureaucratique
- English todaybureaucratic
Borrowed from French bureaucratique, from bureaucrate (“bureaucrat”) or bureaucratie (“bureaucracy”) + -ique (“-ic”), equivalent to bureaucrat + -ic or bureau + -cratic.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.