# -crat

> English word · Suffix · IPA /-kɹæt/

## Definitions
1. A participant in a specified form of government.
2. An advocate of a specified form of government.

## Etymology
From Ancient Greek κράτος (krátos, “power, might”), modelled after words of Ancient Greek origin such as democrat and aristocrat. From Proto-Indo-European *kret- (English hard).

## Source
Compiled from Wiktionary via kaikki.org (CC BY-SA). Data vintage: 2026-05-06.
Canonical page: https://plainspell.com/en/word/crat