cy
cycle; cycles.
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-cya 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 ).
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Cy.abbreviationcounty.
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[sahy]
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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 ).
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a suffix of nouns denoting rank or office, sometimes attached to the stem of a word rather than to the word itself.
captaincy; magistracy.
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capacity.
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currency.
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cycle; cycles.
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(forming nouns from adjectives ending in -t, -tic, -te, and -nt) indicating state, quality, or condition
plutocracy
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intimacy
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(forming abstract nouns from other nouns) rank or office
captaincy
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Etymology
Origin of -cy
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
Example Sentences
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And while Sotomayor noted that such cy pres settlements are rare, Frank said more will be on the way because of the 9th Circuit’s standards.
From Washington Post ● Oct. 31, 2018
Under cy pres, for instance, the March of Dimes could turn its focus to other childhood diseases once polio was eradicated.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 22, 2018
Prove that if a, b, and c are positive constants, then all solutions to the second-order linear differential equation ay″ + by′ + cy = 0 approach zero as x → ∞.
From Textbooks ● Mar. 30, 2016
But in several instances, courts have rejected the settlements after finding the money dedicated to the cy pres award should go to the plaintiffs themselves, or are going to inappropriate charities.
From Reuters ● Sep. 28, 2012
“Did anybody see which way he went? What an exciting day, what? Sa sa cy avaunt, cy sa avaunt, sa cy avaunt!”
From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White
What was a surprise was the relatively minor amount the Dodgers had to give up to acquire the reigning two-time AL Cy Young Award winner.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 8, 2026
Rortvedt, who Roberts said could get the “taking a lion’s share for the foreseeable future,” caught two-time Cy Young winner Tarik Skubal in his Dodgers debut Tuesday.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 5, 2026
Ohtani was considered the runaway MVP favorite early in the year, while his pitching performance also put him in the Cy Young conversation.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 5, 2026
By adding the two-time reigning American League Cy Young Award winner, the Dodgers are poised to enter October in pursuit of a three-peat with one of the best pitching rotations in MLB history.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 4, 2026
A white Communist, a leader of the district of the Communist party, Cy Perry, a slender, close-cropped fellow, stood glaring at me.
From "Black Boy" by Richard Wright
The researchers found that Phaethon's spectrum corresponds exactly to a certain type of meteorite, the so-called CY carbonaceous chondrite.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 28, 2023
The reigning NL CY Young Award winner allowed a walk and had five strikeouts in a 101-pitch outing.
From Washington Times ● Aug. 2, 2023
“Having to call CY as soon as the lockout ended and tell him what our decision was, it wasn’t an easy phone call,” Kershaw said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 13, 2022
The reigning AL CY Young Award winner has fanned at least eight batters in a major league record 18 straight starts.
From Seattle Times ● May 4, 2021
CY WARMAN, "The Story of the Railroad," 1898.
From The Passing of the Frontier; a chronicle of the old West by Emerson Hough
Like the 10d. that preceded it, however, the corresponding values were inserted in the spandrels, "6d. stg." in the left hand pair and "7½d. cy." in the right hand pair.
From Canada: Its Postage Stamps and Postal Stationery by Clifton Armstrong Howes
I begin to fear that S.B. and Cy. are a nest of——.
From A Publisher and His Friends Memoir and Correspondence of John Murray; with an Account of the Origin and Progress of the House, 1768-1843 by Samuel Smiles
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