bureaucratic

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• Received-Pronunciation: /ˌbjʊəɹəˈkɹætɪk/
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• Southern-England: Berkshire Recorded audio is listed in the source snapshot.
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• Canada, General-American: /ˌbjʊɹəˈkɹætɪk/
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• Canada, General-American: [ˌbjʊɹəˈkɹæɾɪk]
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• Colorado Recorded audio is listed in the source snapshot.
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• rhymes with -ætɪk
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• CMU ARPABET: B Y UH2 R AH0 K R AE1 T IH0 K Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *péh2wr̥ Proto-Hellenic *pāwər Ancient Greek πῦρ (pûr) Proto-Indo-European *-rós Proto-Hellenic *-rós Ancient Greek -ρός (-rós) Ancient Greek πῠρρός (pŭrrhós)bor. Latin burrus Latin burra Old French *bure Proto-Indo-European *-lós Proto-Indo-European *-elós Proto-Italic *-elos Latin -lus Latin -ellus Old French -el Old French burel French bureau Proto-Indo-European *kret- Ancient Greek κρᾰ́τος (krắtos) Proto-Indo-European *-h2 Proto-Indo-European *-éh2 Proto-Indo-European *-i-eh2 Proto-Hellenic *-íā Ancient Greek -ῐ́ᾱ (-ĭ́ā) Ancient Greek -κρᾰτῐ́ᾱ (-krătĭ́ā)lbor. French -cratie French bureaucratie French bureaucrate Proto-Indo-European *-ikos Proto-Italic *-ikos Latin -icuslbor. Old French -ique Middle French -ique French -ique ▲ French bureaucratie ▲ French -ique French bureaucratiquebor. English bureaucratic Borrowed from French bureaucratique, from bureaucrate (“bureaucrat”) or bureaucratie (“bureaucracy”) + -ique (“-ic”), equivalent to bureaucrat + -ic or bureau + -cratic.

32 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Asturian: burocráticu — of or pertaining to bureaucracy
• Belarusian: бюракраты́чны (bjurakratýčny) — of or pertaining to bureaucracy
• Catalan: burocràtic — of or pertaining to bureaucracy
• Chinese Mandarin: 官僚 (guānliáo) — of or pertaining to bureaucracy
• Czech: byrokratický — of or pertaining to bureaucracy
• Danish: bureaukratisk — of or pertaining to bureaucracy
• Dutch: bureaucratisch — of or pertaining to bureaucracy
• Finnish: byrokraattinen — of or pertaining to bureaucracy
• Finnish: virkavaltainen — of or pertaining to bureaucracy
• Galician: burocrático — of or pertaining to bureaucracy
• Georgian: ბიუროკრატიული (biuroḳraṭiuli) — of or pertaining to bureaucracy
• German: bürokratisch — of or pertaining to bureaucracy
• Greek: γραφειοκρατικός (grafeiokratikós) — of or pertaining to bureaucracy
• Hindi: शासनिक (śāsnik) — of or pertaining to bureaucracy
• Hungarian: bürokratikus — of or pertaining to bureaucracy
• Indonesian: birokratis — of or pertaining to bureaucracy
• Irish: maorlathach — of or pertaining to bureaucracy
• Italian: burocratico — of or pertaining to bureaucracy
• Kazakh: төрешілдік (töreşıldık) — of or pertaining to bureaucracy
• Latvian: birokrātisks — of or pertaining to bureaucracy
• Macedonian: бирокра́тски (birokrátski) — of or pertaining to bureaucracy
• Malay: بيروکراتيک — of or pertaining to bureaucracy
• Malay: birokratik — of or pertaining to bureaucracy
• Polish: biurokratyczny — of or pertaining to bureaucracy
• Polish: biuralistyczny — of or pertaining to bureaucracy
• Portuguese: burocrático — of or pertaining to bureaucracy
• Romanian: birocratic — of or pertaining to bureaucracy
• Russian: бюрократи́ческий (bjurokratíčeskij) — of or pertaining to bureaucracy
• Spanish: burocrático — of or pertaining to bureaucracy
• Swedish: byråkratisk — of or pertaining to bureaucracy
• Turkish: bürokratik — of or pertaining to bureaucracy
• Ukrainian: бюрократи́чний (bjurokratýčnyj) — of or pertaining to bureaucracy