-cy

-cy

noun suffix

Definition of -CY

1

: action : practice <mendicancy>

2

: rank : office <chaplaincy>

3

: body : class <magistracy>

4

: state : quality <bankruptcy> —often replacing a final -t or -te of the base word <accuracy>

Origin of -CY

Middle English -cie, from Anglo-French, from Latin -tia, partly from -t- (final stem consonant) + -ia -y, partly from Greek -tia, -teia, from -t- (final stem consonant) + -ia, -eia -y