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WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2024-acy, - a suffix of nouns of quality, state, office, etc., many of which accompany adjectives in -acious or nouns or adjectives in -ate: fallacy;
papacy; legacy; delicacy; piracy.
- Latin -ācia, -ātia (spelling, spelled interchangeably in Medieval Latin, reflecting the Romance merger of the forms); these are in turn complexes of -āc- and -āt- -ate1 + -ia -y3. Compare -cracy
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