Meanings
adjectivenonbureaucratic (not comparable)
- not comparableNot bureaucratic.
Origin
- Proto-Indo-European*né
- Proto-Germanic*ne
- Proto-Indo-European*ís?
- Proto-Indo-European*h₁óynos
- Proto-Germanic*ainaz
- Proto-Germanic*nainaz
- Proto-West Germanic*nain
- Old Englishnān
- Middle Englishnon
- Old Englishnān
- Old Englishnān-
- Middle Englishnon-
- Englishnon-
- 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
- Englishbureaucratic
- Englishnonbureaucratic
From non- + bureaucratic.
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