-crasy
English
Etymology
Ultimately from Ancient Greek κρᾶσις (krasis, “mixing”, “tempering”), often via Latin -crāsia and, additionally, Old French -crasie.
Pronunciation
Suffix
-crasy
- Lending a sense of temperament; constituent pattern.
Usage notes
- Because -crasy and -cracy are homophones, and the former is comparatively much rarer, the two suffixes are often mistakenly conflated in the latter spelling, thus giving rise to such common misspellings as idiosyncracy.