different between dynasty vs republic

English

Etymology

From Middle French dynastie, from Late Latin dynastia, from Ancient Greek ????????? (dunasteía, “power, dominion”).

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /?da?n?sti/
• (UK) IPA^(key): /?d?n?sti/

Noun

dynasty (plural dynasties)

1. A series of rulers or dynasts from one family.

   Synonyms: house, lineage

2. (East Asian history) The polity or historical era under the rule of a certain dynasty.

3. (sports) A team or organization which has an extended period of success or dominant performance.

Derived terms

• dynastic
• dynastically

Translations

English

Alternative forms

• republick, republique (obsolete)

Etymology

From Middle French republique (“republic”), borrowed from Latin r?p?blic?, ablative singular of r?sp?blica (“republic”), from r?s (“thing”) + p?blica (“public”); hence literally “the public thing”.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [???p?bl?k]
• Hyphenation: re?pub?lic

Noun

republic (plural republics)

1. A state where sovereignty rests with the people or their representatives, rather than with a monarch or emperor; a country with no monarchy.

   • “[…] We are engaged in a great work, a treatise on our river fortifications, perhaps?? But since when did army officers afford the luxury of amanuenses in this simple republic?? […] ”

2. (archaic) A state, which may or may not be a monarchy, in which the executive and legislative branches of government are separate.
   • 1795, Immanuel Kant, Perpetual Peace: A Philosophical Sketch

     Republicanism is the political principle of the separation of the executive power (the administration) from the legislative; despotism is that of the autonomous execution by the state of laws which it has itself decreed. […] Therefore, we can say: the smaller the personnel of the government (the smaller the number of rulers), the greater is their representation and the more nearly the constitution approaches to the possibility of republicanism; thus the constitution may be expected by gradual reform finally to raise itself to republicanism […]. None of the ancient so-called "republics" knew this system, and they all finally and inevitably degenerated into despotism under the sovereignty of one, which is the most bearable of all forms of despotism.

3. One of the subdivisions constituting Russia. See oblast.

Derived terms

Translations

See also

• commonwealth
• republic on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Further reading

• republic in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• republic in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• republic at OneLook Dictionary Search

Romanian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [re?publik]

Verb

republic

1. first-person singular present indicative/subjunctive of republica