Etymograph

English

stratocracy

Stratocracy comes from Ancient Greek στρατός ‘army’, and goes back to Proto-Indo-European *sterh₃- ‘to spread, extend, stretch out’.

  1. Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*sterh₃-1‘to spread, extend, stretch out’reconstructed
  2. Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*str̥tós1reconstructed
  3. Proto-Hellenicc. 2200–1600 BCE*strətós1reconstructed
  4. Ancient Greekc. 800–300 BCEστρατός2stratós‘army’
  5. Englishtodaystratocracy2

attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed deepest recorded ancestor

  1. 1 Wiktionary, Ancient Greek στρατός
  2. 2 Wiktionary, English stratocracy

Lineage

  1. Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*sterh₃-Wiktionary, Ancient Greek στρατός‘to spread, extend, stretch out’reconstructed
  2. Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*str̥tósWiktionary, Ancient Greek στρατόςreconstructed
  3. Proto-Hellenicc. 2200–1600 BCE*strətósWiktionary, Ancient Greek στρατόςreconstructed
  4. Ancient Greekc. 800–300 BCEστρατόςWiktionary, English stratocracystratós‘army’
  5. EnglishtodaystratocracyWiktionary, English stratocracy

Linked words

through Proto-Indo-European *sterh₃- ‘to spread, extend, stretch out’

street, straw, strand, sternum, prostrate, stroma, substratum, 10 more

Today it means

noun A military government.

Sources

Sources: Wiktionary, “stratocracy”; the older steps come from the Wiktionary entry for Ancient Greek στρατός. By Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0, via kaikki.org (dump of Oct 3 2026); text adapted and restructured. Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word. License.

Etymograph / Proto-Indo-European *sterh₃- / stratocracy

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