The story
- Latin · derived fromdicācitās
- Old French · derived fromdicacité
- Middle English · inherited fromdicacite
- English todaydicacity
From Middle English dicacite, from Old French dicacité, from Latin dicācitās (whence -acity), from dicāx (“talkative”), from dīcō (“to speak, tell”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.