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-acy

Syllables: -a·cy/-ə.siː/US/-ə.si/

-acy suffix: denoting quality, state, condition.

Suffix

-acy

  1. Denoting quality, state, condition.
    • prime + -acy → primacy
    • advocate + -acy → advocacy

Origin of -acy

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

Questions about -acy

What does -acy mean?
-acy means denoting quality, state, condition.
What part of speech is -acy?
-acy is a suffix.
How do you pronounce -acy?
-acy is pronounced /-ə.siː/ (UK).

Words near -acy in the dictionary

  1. -acal
  2. -aceous
  3. -acious
  4. -acity
  5. -acusis
  6. -acy
  7. -ad
  8. -ade
  9. -adelic
  10. -adenia
  11. -ades

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Adapted from Wiktionary: -acy (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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