We have from ancient Greek the suffix -cracy.
From Ancient Greek -κρατία (-kratía), from κράτος (krátos, “power”).
Suffix: rule (in the sense of governing).
We also get from the Greeks the word praxis:
From Ancient Greek πρᾶξις (prâxis, “action, activity, practice”).
and here only the etymology is relevant; not the common ways in which the term is used today.
The intended meaning of this derived term would be, essentially:
leadership by those who do.
If we were to combine the two terms, to form a new derived term, how would we spell it?
The naive attempt (and perhaps also the correct one?) would lead us to: praxicracy.
But I can also imagine: practocracy? So, if we were to try and keep a decent sense of Greek grammar, and (less) a decent sense of English tradition, what would we come up with?
