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单词 -acy
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-acy


a suffix of nouns of quality, state, office, etc., many of which accompany adjectives ending in -acious or nouns or adjectives ending in -ate:fallacy; papacy; legacy; delicacy; piracy.

Origin of -acy

<Latin -ācia,-ātia (spelling interchangeably in Medieval Latin, reflecting the Rom merger of the forms); these are in turn complexes of -āc- and -āt--ate1 + -ia-y3. Cf. -cracy

Words nearby -acy

acute tuberculosis, acute yellow atrophy of liver, acutilingual, ACV, ACW, -acy, acyanotic, acyclic, acyclic compound, acycloguanosine, acyclovir
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