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a•ris•to

Pronunciation: (u-ris'tō), [key]
—n.,
—pl. -tos. Chiefly Brit. Informal.
aristocrat.

aristo-

a learned borrowing from Greek meaning “best,” occurring either in direct loans (aristocratic), or in the formation of compound words: aristotype.

Random House Unabridged Dictionary, Copyright © 1997, by Random House, Inc., on Infoplease.

Aristippus

aristocracy

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