Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

archaicy

/ɑː(ɹ)ˈkeɪ.ɪ.si/

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: ar-chaicy
IPA: /ɑː(ɹ)ˈkeɪ.ɪ.si/

18

Scrabble Score

8

Letters

2

Syllables

6

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

The condition of being archaic.

Uncountable

Example Sentences

"With the discovery of an older frescoe^([sic]) representing Christ Antifonitos archaicy on the north-west pilaster, the latest excavations prove that before the restoration of the church and its being entirely frescoed there was another layer of paintings which were executed in the manner of the third quarter of the 13 the^([sic]) century."
"[…] which are known on the other walks of life of Ukrainian-linguistic dialectal continuum although they have differences in the phonetic and word-formation filling that testifies to the general progress of the dialectal adverbial system trends and archaicy of this layer of vocabulary."

Etymology

From archaic + -y.

Usage

Uncountable

Synonyms

archaicity archaicness

Questions

How do you pronounce archaicy?: The recorded pronunciation is /ɑː(ɹ)ˈkeɪ.ɪ.si/.
What does archaicy mean?: The condition of being archaic.
Where does archaicy come from?: From archaic + -y.

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