The story
- Ancient Greek · derived fromτῑμοκρατίᾱ
- Middle French · derived fromtymocracie
- English todaytimocracy
1580s, from Middle French tymocracie, from Medieval Latin (13th century) timocratia, from Ancient Greek τῑμοκρατίᾱ (tīmokratíā), from τῑμή (tīmḗ, “valuation; honor”) + -κρατίᾱ (-kratíā, “a rule, reign”), from κρατέω (kratéō, “to rule”) (see -cracy).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.