-cy
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About Our Definitions: All forms of a word (noun, verb, etc.) are now displayed on one page.-cy
noun suffixDefinition of -CY
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: action : practice <mendicancy>
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: rank : office <chaplaincy>
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: body : class <magistracy>
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: 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
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