supremacy

English

Etymology

supreme +‎ -acy (a variant of -cy). Compare with supremity and New Latin suprematia.

Noun

supremacy (usually uncountable, plural supremacies)

The quality of being supreme.
Power over all others.
(in combination) The ideology that the specified group is superior to others or should have supreme power over them.
white supremacy

Derived terms

Terms derived from supremacy

Descendants

French suprématie

Translations

quality of being supreme

Catalan: supremacia (ca) f
Chinese:
Mandarin: 霸權 (zh), 霸权 (zh) (bàquán)
Dutch: suprematie (nl) f
Finnish: ylemmyys (fi), ylivertaisuus
French: suprématie (fr) f
German: Vorherrschaft (de) f
Greek: υπεροχή (el) f (yperochí), κύρος (el) n (kýros), κυριαρχία (el) f (kyriarchía)
Irish: ardréim f

Japanese: 主権 (ja) (しゅけん, shuken)
Korean: 최고 (ko) (choego)
Polish: supremacja (pl) f
Portuguese: supremacia (pt) f
Romanian: supremație (ro) f
Russian: превосхо́дство (ru) n (prevosxódstvo), госпо́дство (ru) n (gospódstvo)
Spanish: supremacía f
Turkish: üstünlük (tr)

authority over all others

Finnish: ylemmyys (fi), ylivalta
Irish: ardcheannas m, ceannas m

Portuguese: supremacia (pt) f
Russian: превосхо́дство (ru) (prevosxódstvo)

References

“supremacy”, in OED Online , Oxford: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.

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