Noun: nepotarchy
| Singular | nepotarchy |
| Plural | nepotarchies |
Sample Sentences
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But what Mr. Dudman said last February about the unpopularity of the repressive Diem family nepotarchy, and the problems of bringing democracy to Saigon and winning the war against the Communist guerrillas, has been amply supported by what has transpired in the last 8 months. [1963 October 26, “Closed Door to Vietnam”, in The St. Louis Post-Dispatch:]
Nouns inflected like nepotarchy
clitoridectomy,
royal jelly,
whoopsy,
surrogacy,
urinary,
rastrography,
renoscopy,
sourtop blueberry,
forcible entry,
superficiary,
lipidosity,
potability,
phonography,
hyperproperty,
greenery,
conjugality,
ring singularity,
Brittany,
ignobility,
obscurity, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From Latin nepōs + -archia, coined by American journalist Richard Dudman in February of 1963. By surface analysis, nepotism + -archy. See: Latin Nouns '
nepōs'.