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词汇 -ency
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-ency
suff.（后缀）
  1. Condition or quality:
    状态或性质：
    complacency.
    自满（情绪）

语源
  1. Middle English
    中古英语
  2. variant of -ence [-ence]
    -ence的变体 [后缀，表“性质，状态”]

-ency

suffix forming nouns

a variant of -ence ⇒ fluency, permanency

-ence or -ency

suffix forming nouns

indicating an action, state, condition, or quality
⇒ benevolence
⇒ residence
⇒ patience

Origin

via Old French from Latin -entia, from -ēns, present participial ending

-ency

Word Origin
1
a noun suffix, equivalent to -ence:
consistency; dependency; exigency.
Origin
-ence + -y3

Related Words

  • adjacency
  • advertency
  • affluency
  • antecedency
  • appetency
  • belligerency
-ency
noun suffix
 ETYMOLOGY  Middle English -encie, from Latin -entia — more at -ence
: quality or state
    despondency
-ency
/ənsɪ/  
suffix
forming nouns 构成名词
1.
denoting a quality
表示“性质”：

efficiency.

2.
denoting a state
表示“状态”：

presidency.

词源
from Latin -entia （compare with -ENCE）.
-encyad. L. -entia, the termination of abstract ns. formed upon pr. pples. (ppl. adjs. or ns.) in -ent- by means of the suffix -ia (whence Eng. -y in modesty, fallacy, etc.: see -y, -cy). The L. ns. in -entia (like those in -ia generally) denoted primarily qualities or states; but some of them came by development of sense to be nouns of action or process, and in late L. and in Romanic the formation of nouns of action became the normal function of the suffix. Consequently the Eng. ns. in -ence (which are adaptations of L. types in -entia either through Fr. or according to Fr. analogies) have very frequently the sense of action or process, either in addition to, or to the exclusion of, that of quality or state. The ns. in -ency, on the other hand, being purely English adaptations of the Latin types, have properly only the sense of quality or state, and concrete senses thence developed. As exemplifying this difference of use between the two suffixes, cf. recurrence and currency, confluence and fluency, residence and presidency. When the same word exists in both the -ence and the -ency forms, the tendency is (where the sense of the verbal etymon permits) to restrict the former to action or process (i.e. to connect its meaning rather with that of the vb. than with that of the adj.), while the latter is used to express quality; cf. coherence and coherency, persistence and persistency. In a few instances both forms of a word have equally the sense of quality or condition; in most of these cases the one or the other of the forms has become obsolete or archaic; where they are both in current use, the distinction usually is that -ency has a more distinct reference to the sense of the related adj. or n. in -ent, considered as the predicate of some particular subject; cf. for example, ‘sentience is an attribute of animals’ with ‘some maintain the sentiency of plants’. See -ancy.
-ency
word-forming element denoting quality or state, from Latin -entia. Derivatively identical with -ence; also see -ancy.
☞ -ancy, -ency
☞ -ence, -ency
-ency /(ə)nsi/ suffix.
ORIGIN: from or after Latin -entia -ence. Cf. -ancy.
Forming nouns of quality, as efficiency, or state, as presidency, but not of action (cf. -ence).
-ency
suffix.
(added to verbs) the act or fact of _____ing: Dependency = the act or fact of depending.
(added to adjectives ending in -ent) the quality or condition of being _____ent: Frequency = the condition of being frequent.
other meanings, as in agency, currency.
[< Latin -entia; see etym. under -ence]
UsageSee -ance for usage note.
ency., encyc., or encycl.
encyclopedia.
-en·cy
\ənsē, ən-, -si\ noun suffix
(-es)
Etymology: Middle English -encie, from Latin -entia — more at -ence
1. : quality or state
 < efficiency >
 < expediency >
2. : one having a (specified) quality or being in a (specified) state
 < His Excellency >
3. : instance of a (specified) quality or state
 < repeated inadvertencies >

-ency

  • (US) IPA: /-ɪnsɪ/

    • Suffix

    1. Forming abstract nouns denoting states, conditions, or qualities.
      transparency

    Etymology

    Ultimately from Latin -entia.

    Usage notes

  • Nouns in -ency usually have adjective counterparts in -ent; indeed, -ency may be thought of as -ent + -y.

    • See also

  • -ancy

    • 后缀：-ency [名词后缀]

    与形容词后缀-ent相对应（如urgency与urgent），构成抽象名词，表示性质、状态、

    行为、义同-ence。有些词具有-ency与-ence两种后缀形式（如persistency=persistence）

    urgency 紧急

    insistency 坚持

    emergency 紧急情况

    innocency 无罪，天真

    coherency 粘着

    persistency 持续，坚持

    insolvency 无偿还能力

    convergency 会聚，集中

    despondency 沮丧，泄气

    tendency 趋向，倾向
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