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cy

1
  1. cycle; cycles.


Cy

2

[ sahy ]

noun

  1. a male given name, form of Cyrus.

CY

3
  1. calendar year.

-cy

4
  1. a suffix used to form abstract nouns from adjectives with stems in -t, -te, -tic, and especially -nt ( democracy; accuracy; expediency; stagnancy; lunacy ), and sometimes used to form action nouns ( vacancy; occupancy ).
  2. a suffix of nouns denoting rank or office, sometimes attached to the stem of a word rather than to the word itself:

    captaincy; magistracy.

cy.

5

abbreviation for

  1. capacity.
  2. currency.
  3. cycle; cycles.

Cy.

6

abbreviation for

  1. county.

-cy

1

suffix

  1. forming nouns from adjectives ending in -t, -tic, -te, and -nt indicating state, quality, or condition

    infancy

    plutocracy

    intimacy

    lunacy

  2. forming abstract nouns from other nouns rank or office

    captaincy



CY

2

abbreviation for

  1. Cyprus (international car registration)

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Word History and Origins

Origin of cy1

Representing French -cie, -tie, Latin -cia, -tia, Greek -kia, -keia, -tia, -teia; in most cases to be analyzed as consonant + -y 3, the consonant making the whole or the last member of the preceding morpheme

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Word History and Origins

Origin of cy1

via Old French from Latin -cia, -tia, Greek -kia, -tia, abstract noun suffixes

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Example Sentences

The Cy-Fair campus is one of six that make up the Lone Star College System.

“It was a chaotic scene,” said Capt. Robert Rasa of the Cy-Fair Volunteer Fire Department.

Cy Twombly, who died yesterday in Rome, was in every way too big for modern art.

A month after meeting Stella, Castelli showed Cy Twombly, another Southerner like Rauschenberg and Johns.

They are there, they sit there, these canvases by Cy Twombly that seem to be encrusted in the bricks of the walls.

Celuy-cy avoit souvent esvad le danger d'estre noy, et tout fraischement le beau jour de la Pentecoste dernire.

Of course Cy goes practically every week, but I have always wanted another girl to go with.

"Mebbe it is, and mebbe it isn't," returned Cy Parker stoutly.

"Cy's got a hard heart, Ruth," he said with a sudden gravity that came strangely through his youthfulness.

Then, "We don't have to bother getting any room ready for Cy," he said, with a scoffing little laugh.

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