-cy
suff.（后缀）
语源
suff.（后缀）
- State; condition; quality:
状态；情况；质量：
bankruptcy.
破产 - Rank; office:
等级；职务：
baronetcy.
男爵身份
语源
- Middle English -cie
中古英语 -cie - from Old French -cie, -tie
源自 古法语 -cie, -tie - from Latin -cia, -tia
源自 拉丁语 -cia, -tia - Greek -kia, -keia, -tia, -teia
希腊语 -kia, -keia, -tia, -teia
-cy
suffix
(forming nouns from adjectives ending in -t, -tic, -te, and -nt) indicating state, quality, or condition
⇒
plutocracy
⇒
lunacy
⇒
intimacy
⇒
infancy
(forming abstract nouns from other nouns) rank or office
⇒
captaincy
Origin
via Old French from Latin -cia, -tia, Greek -kia, -tia, abstract noun suffixes-cy
Word Origin
1
a suffix used to form abstract nouns from adjectives with stems in -t, -te, -tic, and especially -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.
Origin
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
-cy1. a suffix of abstract nouns, usually paired with adjectives ending in -t, -te, -tic, especially -nt, as in accuracy, expediency, also paired with other adjectives, as in fallacy (fallacious), or with a noun, as in lunacy, sometimes forming (in extended suffixes) action nouns, as in vacancy (vacate), occupancy (occupy).
2. a suffix of nouns denoting a rank or dignity, sometimes attached to the stem of a word rather than the word itself, as in captaincy, colonelcy, magistracy.
[representing French -cie, -tie, Latin -cia, -tia, Greek -kia, -keia, -tia, -teia]-cy
noun suffix
mendicancy
2. rank : office
baronetcy
chaplaincy
3. body : class
magistracy
4. state : quality
bankruptcy
normalcy
— often replacing a final -t or -te of the base word
accuracy
noun suffix
ETYMOLOGY Middle English -cie, from Anglo-French, from Latin -tia, partly from -t- (final stem consonant) + -ia -y, partly from Greek -tia, -teia, from -t- (final stem consonant) + -ia, -eia -y
1. action : practicemendicancy
2. rank : office
baronetcy
chaplaincy
3. body : class
magistracy
4. state : quality
bankruptcy
normalcy
— often replacing a final -t or -te of the base word
accuracy
-cy
suffix
1.
- denoting state or condition表示“状态”, “情况”：
-
bankruptcy.
2.
- denoting rank or status表示“等级”, “身份”：
-
baronetcy.
词源
from Latin -cia, -tia and Greek -k（e）ia, -t（e）ia.
-cy
abstract noun suffix of quality or rank, from Latin -cia, -tia, from Greek -kia, -tia, from abstract ending -ia + stem ending -c- or -t-. The native correspondents are -ship, -hood.
☞ -acy, -cy
ORIGIN: Repr. Latin -cia , -tia , Greek -k(e)ia , -t(e)ia : see -y 3
-cy ⇒ Main Entry: -sy
-cy
suffix added to nouns or adjectives to form nouns.
office, position, or rank of _____: Captaincy = rank of a captain.
quality, condition, or fact of being _____: Bankruptcy = condition of being bankrupt.
[< French -cie, -tie, learned borrowings) or directly < Latin -cia, -tia, or Greek -kiā, -keia, -tiā, -teia]
-cy
\-sē, -si\ noun suffix
(-es)
Etymology: Middle English -cie, from Old French, from Late Latin -cia, from Latin -tia, partly from Latin -t- (as final stem consonant) + -ia -y, partly from Greek -teia, -tia, from -t- (as final stem consonant) + -eia, -ia -y
: act : action : practice : function
< piracy >
< prophecy >
: rank : office
< baronetcy >
< chaplaincy >
< generalcy >
: body : class
< aristocracy >
: state : quality
< accuracy >
< bankruptcy >
< normalcy >
— orig. and still often replacing a final -t or -te of the base noun or adjective
< piracy >
< prophecy >
: rank : office
< baronetcy >
< chaplaincy >
< generalcy >
: body : class
< aristocracy >
: state : quality
< accuracy >
< bankruptcy >
< normalcy >
— orig. and still often replacing a final -t or -te of the base noun or adjective
-cy
Suffix
- non-productive Used to form nouns of state, condition or quality e.g. obstinacy
- non-productive Used to form nouns of rank or office e.g. abbacy
Etymology
Ultimately from Latin -cia, -tia, Ancient Greek -κια (-kia), -τια (-tia).
Usage notes
In sense of a state, a condition, often replaces a terminal -t, as in pregnancy (from pregnant). Exceptions include normalcy (no terminal -t in normal) and bankruptcy (terminal -t in bankrupt retained).
Synonyms
Derived terms
English words suffixed with -cy
后缀：-cy [名词后缀]
表示性质、状态、职权、官衔
normalcy 正常状态
generalcy 将军职权、任期
vacancy 空白，空虚
surgeoncy 外科医生职务
captaincy 船长的职位
colonelcy 上校衔
bankruptcy 破产
ensigncy 海军小尉衔
infancy 幼年期
idiocy 白痴，呆痴
词根词缀：-cy
【来源及含义】singular
【相关描述】A suffix that forms nouns.
【同源单词】advocacy, bankruptcy, captaincy, celebacy, democracy, fallacy