Due to the recent death of Adolfo Suarez, who was President of Spain, between 1976 and 1981, in the last few weeks, in Spain, we have been talking about this very important character, in our History, who managed to achieve consensus and life in peace among the Spaniards of different ideologies.
Suárez was one of the architects of the Transition from Dictatorship to Democracy. And that is precisely what I want to talk about today: Democracy, its origin.
In “The Philippics”, Cicero condemned the attempt by Marco Antonio of stablishing a Dictatorship in Roma. And it here begins the important role of Democracy: that is the antithesis of the Dictatorship, because it defends the value of freedom, among others.
Democracy comes from the Greek --Democratia, that comes from the words: demos (people) and kratos (power)--.
A Spanish word related to Democracy is Demographics (the study about people).
The party of no government is an Ácrata (Anarchist).
At the same time we have the word “Anarquía”, we have the word “Monarquía” (Monarchy), that comes from: Mono (only one) and Argi or Argia (Government). About the word “Mono”, we have in Spanish: Monoplaza (single-seater), Monoteista (who believes in only one god).
Same that Monarchy, we have: “Architect” and “Archipielago” (a set of islands).
The opposite of Democracy is Dictatorship, that comes from Dictare (to say often). Dictate).
In Spain we had a “Tansition”, that comes from “Transitio”, in Latin, that comes from the words: “Trans” and “Itio”, that means “To go”; so, it is the action of “To pass”. And from there comes the word “Tánsito” (Transit); also the word: “Transeunte” (Passerby).
Transition took a change of Regime. This word comes from the verb Rego, Regis, Regere, Rexi, Rectum, that means Govern, Manage, Govern. Hence comes King, Ruler, Rector, Law. A Regime is a set of rules than we have as a Society.
Well, I hope that you have enjoyed with this post.
Till soon, kind regards,
Luis.
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