Meanings
plural dodecarchies
- countableuncountableA government of twelve people.
And this dodecarchy may have lasted much longer than is stated by Herodotus; the immense labyrinth on Lake Moeris, the building of which is ascribed to it, is a proof of this, or else we must deny that it was erected during the dodecarchy.
1852, Barthold Georg Niebuhr, Marcus von Niebuhr, Lectures on Ancient History, page 105Synonyms: government
Synonyms & antonyms
nounA government of twelve people.
Origin
From dodec- + -archy, after the pattern of heptarchy, etc.
Full word history & related roots →Translations
Greek δωδεκαρχία
- δωδεκαρχία (dodekarchía)Translations
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