Etymology

sportocrat

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Today it means: Someone who performs administrative work in a sports association or federation, but is not an athlete themselves. Full definition →

English bureaucrat ← French bureaucrate ← Ancient Greek κρᾰ́τος (krắtos)
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The story

  1. Proto-Indo-European*dwóh₁
  2. Proto-Indo-European*trísinflu.
  3. Proto-Indo-European*d(w)is-
  4. Proto-Italic*dis-
  5. Latindis-
  6. Old Frenchdes-
  7. Proto-Indo-European*per-
  8. Proto-Indo-European*pr̥téh₂
  9. Proto-Italic*portā
  10. Proto-Italic*portāō
  11. Latinportāre
  12. Old Frenchporter
  13. Anglo-Normandesporter
  14. Middle Englishdisporten
  15. Middle Englishsporten
  16. Englishsport
  17. Proto-Indo-European*kret-
  18. Ancient Greekκρᾰ́τος (krắtos)
  19. Englishsport
  20. Proto-Indo-European*péh₂wr̥
  21. Proto-Hellenic*pāwər
  22. Ancient Greekπῦρ (pûr)
  23. Ancient Greekπῠρρός (pŭrrhós)
  24. Latinburrus
  25. Latinburra
  26. Old French*bure
  27. Old Frenchburel
  28. Frenchbureau
  29. Ancient Greekκρᾰ́τος (krắtos)
  30. Frenchbureaucratie
  31. Frenchbureaucrate
  32. Englishbureaucrat
  33. English todaysportocrat

From sport + -o- + -crat, or a blend of sport + bureaucrat.

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