hierarchy

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• /ˈhaɪ.ə.ɹɑː(ɹ).ki/
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• /ˈhaɪ.ɹɑː(ɹ).ki/
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• nonstandard: /ˈhaɪ.ɑː(ɹ).ki/
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• CMU ARPABET: HH AY1 ER0 AA2 R K IY0 Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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• CMU ARPABET 2: HH AY1 R AA2 R K IY0 Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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From Middle English ierarchie, jerarchie, from Old French ierarchie, jerarchie, from Late Latin ierarchia, from Latin hierarchia, from Ancient Greek ἱεραρχία (hierarkhía, “rule of a high priest”), from ἱεράρχης (hierárkhēs, “high priest”), from ἱερός (hierós, “holy”) + ἄρχω (árkhō, “to rule”), equivalent to hiero- + -archy. The H was re-added c. 1500 due to influence from Classical Latin.

118 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Albanian: hierarki — body of authoritative officials organised by rank
• Arabic: هَرَمِيَّة (haramiyya) — body of authoritative officials organised by rank
• Arabic: سِلْسِلَةُ مَراتِب (silsilatu marātib) — body of authoritative officials organised by rank
• Armenian: հիերարխիա (hierarxia) — body of authoritative officials organised by rank
• Armenian: պաշտոնակարգություն (paštonakargutʻyun) — body of authoritative officials organised by rank
• Azerbaijani: iyerarxiya — body of authoritative officials organised by rank
• Belarusian: іера́рхія (ijerárxija) — body of authoritative officials organised by rank
• Bulgarian: йера́рхия (jerárhija) — body of authoritative officials organised by rank
• Catalan: jerarquia — body of authoritative officials organised by rank
• Chinese: 階層 /阶层 (zh-min-nan) — body of authoritative officials organised by rank
• Chinese Mandarin: 等級制度 /等级制度 (děngjí zhìdù) — body of authoritative officials organised by rank
• Chinese Mandarin: 階層 /阶层 (jiēcéng) — body of authoritative officials organised by rank
• Chinese Mandarin: 層次 /层次 (céngcì) — body of authoritative officials organised by rank
• Czech: hierarchie — body of authoritative officials organised by rank
• Danish: hierarki — body of authoritative officials organised by rank
• Dutch: hiërarchie — body of authoritative officials organised by rank
• Esperanto: hierarkio — body of authoritative officials organised by rank
• Esperanto: hierarĥio — body of authoritative officials organised by rank
• Estonian: hierarhia — body of authoritative officials organised by rank
• Finnish: hierarkia — body of authoritative officials organised by rank
• French: hiérarchie — body of authoritative officials organised by rank
• Galician: xerarquía — body of authoritative officials organised by rank
• Georgian: იერარქია (ierarkia) — body of authoritative officials organised by rank
• German: Hierarchie — body of authoritative officials organised by rank
• Greek: ιεραρχία (ierarchía) — body of authoritative officials organised by rank
• Hebrew: הִיֵרַרכִיָה \ הייררכיה (hiyerárkhya) — body of authoritative officials organised by rank
• Hindi: पदानुक्रम (padānukram) — body of authoritative officials organised by rank
• Hindi: अनुक्रम (anukram) — body of authoritative officials organised by rank
• Hindi: हाइरार्की (hāirārkī) — body of authoritative officials organised by rank
• Hungarian: hierarchia — body of authoritative officials organised by rank
• Icelandic: stigveldi — body of authoritative officials organised by rank
• Indonesian: hierarki — body of authoritative officials organised by rank
• Irish: ordlathas — body of authoritative officials organised by rank
• Irish: cliarlathas — body of authoritative officials organised by rank
• Italian: gerarchia — body of authoritative officials organised by rank
• Japanese: 階層 (kaisō) — body of authoritative officials organised by rank
• Japanese: 序列 (joretsu) — body of authoritative officials organised by rank
• Japanese: ヒエラルキー (hierarukī) — body of authoritative officials organised by rank
• Kashmiri: پَدٕکرٛٲم (padụkrạ̄m) — body of authoritative officials organised by rank
• Kazakh: иерархия (ierarxiä) — body of authoritative officials organised by rank
• Kazakh: баспалдақ (baspaldaq) — body of authoritative officials organised by rank
• Khmer: ទំរង់ស័ក្តិ (tumrŭəng sak) — body of authoritative officials organised by rank
• Khmer: យសស័ក្តិ (yuəh sak) — body of authoritative officials organised by rank
• Korean: 계층 (gyecheung) — body of authoritative officials organised by rank
• Kyrgyz: иерархия (iyerarhiya) — body of authoritative officials organised by rank
• Latin: hierarchia — body of authoritative officials organised by rank
• Latvian: hierarhija — body of authoritative officials organised by rank
• Lithuanian: hierarchija — body of authoritative officials organised by rank
• Luxembourgish: Hierarchie — body of authoritative officials organised by rank
• Macedonian: хиерархија (hierarhija) — body of authoritative officials organised by rank
• Macedonian: чинослед (činosled) — body of authoritative officials organised by rank
• Malay: hierarki — body of authoritative officials organised by rank
• Mongolian: иерархи (ijerarxi) — body of authoritative officials organised by rank
• Norwegian Bokmål: hierarki — body of authoritative officials organised by rank
• Norwegian Nynorsk: hierarki — body of authoritative officials organised by rank
• Iranian Persian: سِلْسِلِه مَراتِب (selsele marâteb) — body of authoritative officials organised by rank
• Iranian Persian: سِلْسِلِهمَراتِب (selsele-marâteb) — body of authoritative officials organised by rank
• Iranian Persian: پایگان (pâygân) — body of authoritative officials organised by rank
• Iranian Persian: هایرارْکی (hâyrârki) — body of authoritative officials organised by rank
• Polish: hierarchia — body of authoritative officials organised by rank
• Portuguese: hierarquia — body of authoritative officials organised by rank
• Romanian: ierarhie — body of authoritative officials organised by rank
• Russian: иера́рхия (ijerárxija) — body of authoritative officials organised by rank
• Serbo-Croatian: хијера̀рхија — body of authoritative officials organised by rank
• Serbo-Croatian: hijeràrhija — body of authoritative officials organised by rank
• Slovak: hierarchia — body of authoritative officials organised by rank
• Slovene: hierarhija — body of authoritative officials organised by rank
• Spanish: jerarquía — body of authoritative officials organised by rank
• Spanish: hierarquía (disused) — body of authoritative officials organised by rank
• Swedish: hierarki — body of authoritative officials organised by rank
• Tagalog: herarkiya — body of authoritative officials organised by rank
• Tajik: иерархия (iyerarxiya) — body of authoritative officials organised by rank
• Thai: ลําดับชั้น (lam-dàp-chán) — body of authoritative officials organised by rank
• Turkish: hiyerarşi — body of authoritative officials organised by rank
• Ottoman Turkish: سلسلهء مراتب (silsile-i merâtib) — body of authoritative officials organised by rank
• Turkmen: iýerarhiýa — body of authoritative officials organised by rank
• Ukrainian: ієра́рхія (ijerárxija) — body of authoritative officials organised by rank
• Uzbek: iyerarxiya — body of authoritative officials organised by rank
• Vietnamese: tôn ti — body of authoritative officials organised by rank
• Vietnamese: thứ bậc — body of authoritative officials organised by rank
• Vietnamese: hệ thống thứ bậc — body of authoritative officials organised by rank
• Vietnamese: tôn ti trật tự — body of authoritative officials organised by rank
• Belarusian: іера́рхія (ijerárxija) — class of objects
• Bulgarian: йера́рхия (jerárhija) — class of objects
• Catalan: jerarquia — class of objects
• Chinese Mandarin: 等級制度 /等级制度 (děngjí zhìdù) — class of objects
• Chinese Mandarin: 階層 /阶层 (jiēcéng) — class of objects
• Chinese Mandarin: 層次 /层次 (céngcì) — class of objects
• Danish: hierarki — class of objects
• Danish: rangorden — class of objects
• Dutch: hiërarchie — class of objects
• Dutch: rangorde — class of objects
• Finnish: hierarkia — class of objects
• German: Hierarchie — class of objects
• German: Rangordnung — class of objects
• Greek: ιεραρχία (ierarchía) — class of objects
• Hungarian: hierarchia — class of objects
• Hungarian: alá-fölé rendeltség — class of objects
• Indonesian: tata tingkat — class of objects
• Khmer: លំដាប់សក្តិ (lumdap sak) — class of objects
• Khmer: អនុក្រម (ʼaʼnukrɑm) — class of objects
• Macedonian: хиерархија (hierarhija) — class of objects
• Mongolian: иерархи (ijerarxi) — class of objects
• Iranian Persian: سِلْسِلِه مَراتِب (selsele marâteb) — class of objects
• Iranian Persian: سِلْسِلِهمَراتِب (selsele-marâteb) — class of objects
• Iranian Persian: هایرارْکی (hâyrârki) — class of objects
• Polish: hierarchia — class of objects
• Portuguese: hierarquia — class of objects
• Russian: иера́рхия (ijerárxija) — class of objects
• Serbo-Croatian: хијера̀рхија — class of objects
• Serbo-Croatian: hijeràrhija — class of objects
• Spanish: jerarquía — class of objects
• Spanish: hierarquía (disused) — class of objects
• Swedish: hierarki — class of objects
• Thai: ลําดับชั้น (lam-dàp-chán) — class of objects
• Ukrainian: ієра́рхія (ijerárxija) — class of objects
• Vietnamese: thứ bậc — class of objects
• Vietnamese: hệ thống thứ bậc — class of objects