Everyday LifeGreek → English
Stacy
/ˈsteɪsi/proper noun
A given name, now usually female, shortened from Anastasia or from Eustace.
The Greek roots
ἀνά
aná
up, again
στάσις
stásis
a standing
Literally: “standing up again”
The story of the word
Two Greek names feed this one. Anastasia is ἀνάστασις, resurrection, an early Christian name that produced the modern female Stacy; mediaeval England also had Stace as a man's name, clipped from Eustace. The στα- inside it, plain standing, runs on through static, ecstasy and apostasy.
- How it travelled
- Ancient Greek → Latin → Old French → English
Same family
Anastasiastaticecstasyapostasy
In a sentence
Stacy still spells it without the e, which nobody ever gets right.