Sinarquism

Part of speech: noun, adjective

Definitions

1. A right-wing Mexican nationalist political movement that emerged in the 1930s, promoting Catholic values, social order and opposition to communism and liberalism
2. The Mexican ideology and political movement of the 1930s and 1940s that championed Catholic traditionalism, national unity and anti-communist corporatism
3. A far-right Mexican political doctrine from the 1930s stressing Christian social order, hierarchy and resistance to socialist and liberal reforms

Etymology: Sinarquism is a Mexican political movement, and its name is a Spanish form of "synarchism," a term that traces back to Greek roots meaning "joint rule," from "syn" (together) and "archē" (rule). The English word is a doublet of synarchism, meaning the two entered English from the same source by different routes, so the Spanish-derived form sits alongside the older English spelling as a variant of the same term. The word's connection to a real political movement is the reason it stands out. Its meaning, in the Spanish-speaking world, is tied to a specific twentieth-century organisation in Mexico rather than to the broad idea of shared government that the Greek roots suggest. Readers encountering it in English usually meet it in that narrower sense, which is a useful reminder that a word built from transparent parts can still acquire a specialised identity through the history of the people who used it.