Etymology

-acy

-a·cy

Today it means: Denoting quality, state, condition. Full definition →

Latin -ācia
Ask AI about its historyChatGPTClaudePerplexityGoogle AIGrok

The story

  1. Latin · derived from-ātia
  2. Latin · derived from-ācia
  3. English today-acy

From Latin -ācia or ultimately Latin -ātia. Also a suffixal construction from -ate + -cy.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.