Cy
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CY
calendar year.
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Cy
is always a great word to know.
So is flibbertigibbet. Does it mean:
| a chattering or flighty, light-headed person. |
| a fool or simpleton; ninny. |
cy
cycle; cycles.
-cy
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.
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
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
Cy.
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| CY | |
| —abbreviation for | |
| Cyprus (international car registration) | |
| -cy | |
| —suffix | |
| 1. | (forming nouns from adjectives ending in -t, -tic, -te, and -nt) indicating state, quality, or condition: plutocracy; lunacy; intimacy; infancy |
| 2. | (forming abstract nouns from other nouns) rank or office: captaincy |
| [via Old French from Latin -cia, -tia, Greek -kia, -tia, abstract noun suffixes] | |
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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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Abbreviations & Acronyms
| cy Welsh |
| Cy cyanide |
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| Cy. county |
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