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Cy

[sahy]

Origin

noun

a male given name, form of Cyrus.

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calendar year.

cycle; cycles.

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).

a suffix of nouns denoting rank or office, sometimes attached to the stem of a word rather than to the word itself: captaincy; magistracy.

Origin:
representing French -cie, -tie, Latin -cia, -tia, Greek -kia, -keia, -tia, -teia; in most cases to be analyzed as consonant + -y³: the consonant making the whole or the last member of the preceding morpheme

county.

capacity.

currency.

cycle; cycles.

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CY

—*abbreviation for*
	Cyprus (international car registration)

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Word Origin & History

-cy

abstract noun suffix of quality or rank, from L. -cia, -tia, from Gk. -kia, -tia, from abstract ending -ia + stem ending -c- or -t-. The native correspondents are -ship, -hood.

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