demo-
demo- prefix: people.
Prefix
demo-
- people
- e.g. democracy, demolatry, demonym
- population
- e.g. demogenetics, demography, demology
- demography
- e.g. demographer, demolinguistic, demoeconomic
Origin of demo-
From Ancient Greek δημο- (dēmo-), from δῆμος (dêmos, “people”).
Words formed from demo-
- demagogue
- demarchy
- democracy
- democrat
- democratic
- democratizing
- demogenic
- demolater
- demolatry
- demonym
- demonymy
- demophilic
- demophobic
- demopolitics
- demoscopy
- demosophy
- demotic
- Philodemician
- Tridemism
- demogenetic
- demogenetics
- demography
- demology
- demoeconomic
- demograph
- demographer
- demographics
- demolinguistic
- demolinguistics
Questions about demo-
- What does demo- mean?
- Demo- means people.
- What part of speech is demo-?
- Demo- is a prefix.
Words near demo- in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: demo- (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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