Standard Lemma guide

demo-

prefix · 3 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.

Sound

Pronunciation

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1

prefix

Meaning 1

people

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: morpheme

Examples

  • e.g. democracy, demolatry, demonym

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

2

prefix

Meaning 2

population

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: morpheme

Examples

  • e.g. demogenetics, demography, demology

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

3

prefix

Meaning 3

demography

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: morpheme

Examples

  • e.g. demographer, demolinguistic, demoeconomic

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

History

Etymology

From Ancient Greek δημο- (dēmo-), from δῆμος (dêmos, “people”).

Across languages

Translations

80 source translations are retained for this English entry.

  • Afrikaans: demo- — pertaining to people or society
  • Albanian: demo- — pertaining to people or society
  • Aragonese: demo- — pertaining to people or society
  • Armenian: դեմո- (demo-) — pertaining to people or society
  • Asturian: demo- — pertaining to people or society
  • Azerbaijani: demo- — pertaining to people or society
  • Bashkir: демо- (demo-) — pertaining to people or society
  • Basque: demo- — pertaining to people or society
  • Belarusian: дэма- (dema-) — pertaining to people or society
  • Bulgarian: демо- (demo-) — pertaining to people or society
  • Buryat: демо- (djemo-) — pertaining to people or society
  • Carpathian Rusyn: демо- (demo-) — pertaining to people or society
  • Catalan: demo- — pertaining to people or society
  • Chechen: демо- (demo-) — pertaining to people or society
  • Chuvash: демо- (demo-) — pertaining to people or society
  • Cornish: demo- — pertaining to people or society
  • Crimean Tatar: demo- — pertaining to people or society
  • Czech: demo- — pertaining to people or society
  • Danish: demo- — pertaining to people or society
  • Dutch: demo- — pertaining to people or society
  • Esperanto: demo- — pertaining to people or society
  • Estonian: demo- — pertaining to people or society
  • Finnish: demo- — pertaining to people or society
  • French: démo- — pertaining to people or society
  • Galician: demo- — pertaining to people or society
  • Georgian: დემო- (demo-) — pertaining to people or society
  • German: demo- — pertaining to people or society
  • Greek: δημο- (dimo-) — pertaining to people or society
  • Ancient Greek: δημο- (dēmo-) — pertaining to people or society
  • Greenlandic: demo- — pertaining to people or society
  • Hebrew: דֵּמוֹ־ (demo) — pertaining to people or society
  • Hungarian: demo- — pertaining to people or society
  • Ido: demo- — pertaining to people or society
  • Indonesian: demo- — pertaining to people or society
  • Interlingua: demo- — pertaining to people or society
  • Irish: daon- — pertaining to people or society
  • Italian: demo- — pertaining to people or society
  • Kalmyk: демо- (demo-) — pertaining to people or society
  • Kazakh: демо- (demo-) — pertaining to people or society
  • Northern Kurdish: demo- — pertaining to people or society
  • Kyrgyz: демо- (demo-) — pertaining to people or society
  • Ladino: demo- — pertaining to people or society
  • Latin: dēmo- — pertaining to people or society
  • Latvian: demo- — pertaining to people or society
  • Ligurian: demo- — pertaining to people or society
  • Lithuanian: demo- — pertaining to people or society
  • Macedonian: демо- (demo-) — pertaining to people or society
  • Malay: demo- — pertaining to people or society
  • Maltese: demo- — pertaining to people or society
  • Central Melanau: demo- — pertaining to people or society
  • Norman: démo- — pertaining to people or society
  • Norwegian Bokmål: demo- — pertaining to people or society
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: demo- — pertaining to people or society
  • Occitan: demo- — pertaining to people or society
  • Polish: demo- — pertaining to people or society
  • Portuguese: demo- — pertaining to people or society
  • Romanian: demo- — pertaining to people or society
  • Romanian: демо- (demo-) — pertaining to people or society
  • Russian: демо- (demo-) — pertaining to people or society
  • Northern Sami: demo- — pertaining to people or society
  • Scots: demo- — pertaining to people or society
  • Serbo-Croatian: демо- — pertaining to people or society
  • Serbo-Croatian: demo- — pertaining to people or society
  • Sicilian: dimu- — pertaining to people or society
  • Slovak: demo- — pertaining to people or society
  • Slovene: demo- — pertaining to people or society
  • Sotho: demo- — pertaining to people or society
  • Spanish: demo- — pertaining to people or society
  • Sranan Tongo: demo- — pertaining to people or society
  • Swahili: demo- — pertaining to people or society
  • Swedish: demo- — pertaining to people or society
  • Tagalog: demo- — pertaining to people or society
  • Tajik: демо- (demo-) — pertaining to people or society
  • Tatar: демо- (demo-) — pertaining to people or society
  • Turkish: demo- — pertaining to people or society
  • Turkmen: demo- — pertaining to people or society
  • Ukrainian: демо- (demo-) — pertaining to people or society
  • Uzbek: demo- — pertaining to people or society
  • Welsh: demo- — pertaining to people or society
  • Yiddish: דעמאָ־ (demo-) — pertaining to people or society