-cy


-cy

suff.1. State; condition; quality: bankruptcy.2. Rank; office: baronetcy.
[Middle English -cie, from Old French -cie, -tie, from Latin -cia, -tia and Greek -kiā, -keia, -tiā, -teia.]

-cy

suffix 1. (forming nouns from adjectives ending in -t, -tic, -te, and -nt) indicating state, quality, or condition: plutocracy; lunacy; intimacy; infancy. 2. (forming abstract nouns from other nouns) rank or office: captaincy. [via Old French from Latin -cia, -tia, Greek -kia, -tia, abstract noun suffixes]

-cy

1. a suffix used to form abstract nouns from adjectives with stems in -t, -te, -tic, and esp. -nt (democracy; accuracy; expediency; stagnancy; lunacy), and sometimes used to form action nouns (vacancy; occupancy). 2. a suffix of nouns denoting rank or office, sometimes attached to the stem of a word rather than to the word itself: captaincy; magistracy. [representing French -cie, -tie, Latin -cia, -tia, Greek -kia, -keia, -tia, -teia; in most cases to be analyzed as consonant + -y3, the consonant making the whole or the last member of the preceding morpheme]

Cy.

county.

cy.

1. capacity. 2. currency. 3. cycle.