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It's a Greek root (ἄτερ) — without, in the absence of — in a set of clunky 19th century terms (atercratie, atercrat) that, under the circumstances, quite understandably didn't catch on. But it's one of a number of terms that we might have had to live with, instead of anarchism, had the origin story of the emerging anarchist movement initially been cobbled together by different anarchists on a different continent.