different between czarocrat vs czar

English

Alternative forms

• tsarocrat

Etymology

czar +? -o- +? -crat

Noun

czarocrat (plural czarocrats)

1. A participant in czarocracy or a czarocratic regime.
2. A supporter of czarocracy or a czarocratic government.
3. An official or bureaucrat with substantial autonomy, especially one referred to as a "czar" or "tsar".

Quotations

• 1913, Albion Woodbury Small, Between Eras: From Capitalism to Democracy, Inter-Collegiate Press, Kansas City, p. 369.

But the Douma knows, and the Czar knows, and the Czarocrats know that a constitution with the word 'Autocrat' left out would be the Magna Charta of Russian liberties.

• 2005, Andrew T. Gillies, "Tech's Christmas Wish", in Forbes.com, November 30, 2005.

Why would techies toast the appointment of a czarocrat?

• 2009, John Phillip Gingrey, Congressional Record, U.S. House of Representatives, H12357, November 4, 2009.

Now the Pelosi health care reform that the Representative from Michigan just showed us, the 2,000-page monstrosity, these 53 bureaucrats, czarocrats, czarinas, whatever, have grown to about 150.

Derived terms

• czarocracy
• czarocratic

English

Etymology

See tsar. The spelling czar, the older spelling in English, comes from Sigismund von Herberstein's Rerum Moscoviticarum Commentarii ("Notes on Muscovite Affairs") of 1549. The alternative tsar began to replace it in the 19th century.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /z??(?)/, /ts??(?)/

Noun

czar (plural czars)

1. Alternative spelling of tsar (especially common in American English)
2. (informal, politics, US) An appointed official tasked to regulate or oversee a specific area.

Anagrams

• Racz, Z-car, z car

French

Noun

czar m (plural czars)

1. Archaic spelling of tsar.

Further reading

• “czar” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Polish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /t??ar/

Etymology 1

From Proto-Slavic *?ar?, from Proto-Balto-Slavic *ker- *k?r-, from Proto-Indo-European *k?er-.

Noun

czar m inan

1. spell (magic)

   Synonyms: zakl?cie, urok

2. allure, charm (quality of inspiring delight or admiration)

   Synonym: urok

Declension

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the main entry.

Noun

czar

1. genitive plural of czara

Further reading

• czar in Wielki s?ownik j?zyka polskiego, Instytut J?zyka Polskiego PAN
• czar in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Portuguese

Alternative forms

• tsar, tzar

Etymology

From Russian ???? (car?), from Old East Slavic ?????? (c?sar?), from Old Church Slavonic ?????? (c?sar?), from Proto-Slavic *c?sa??, from a Germanic language, from Proto-Germanic *kaisaraz, from Latin Caesar. Doublet of César and kaiser

Pronunciation

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /?tsa?/
• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /?tsa?/, /?kza?/

Noun

czar m (plural czares, feminine czarina, feminine plural czarinas)

1. tsar