Bankruptcy
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mid 16th century: from Italian banca rotta ‘broken bench’, from banca (see bank2) and rompere ‘to break’. The change in the ending was due to association with Latin rupt- ‘broken’.
wiktionary
bankrupt + -cy
etymonline
bankruptcy (n.)
1700, "the breaking up of a business due to its inability to pay obligations," from bankrupt, "probably on the analogy of insolvency, but with -t erroneously retained in spelling, instead of being merged in the suffix ...." [OED]. Figurative use from 1761. Earlier words for it (late 16c.-17c.) were bankrupting, bankruption, bankrupture, bankruptship.
