单词 | -acy |
释义 | -acya 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 -acyacute tuberculosis, acute yellow atrophy of liver, acutilingual, ACV, ACW, -acy, acyanotic, acyclic, acyclic compound, acycloguanosine, acyclovir Dictionary.com UnabridgedBased on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2020 |
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