A suffix forming numerous abstract nouns denoting quality or condition, most of them directly borrowed from French or Anglo-Norman, some formed from Latin nouns in -atia or -acia (in some cases……
A suffix forming nouns, usually in words borrowed from French (such as artificie, benefice, malefice, marshalsie, minstralsie, prophecie, seneshalsie) or Latin (such as servicie), but occasionally……
