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res publica
Latin · ancient
"the public affair, the state"
literally the public thing, or the public affair, referring to the state governed by its citizens
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republique
French · medieval
"a state without a monarch"
carried into French for a state governed without a monarch
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republic
English · 1600s
"a state governed by elected representatives, without a monarch"
settled as the English word for a state governed by elected representatives
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