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• cy
  cy

  cycle; cycles.
• Cy
  Cy

  noun

  a male given name, form of Cyrus.
• CY
  CY

  calendar year.
• -cy
  -cy

  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 ).
• cy.
  cy.

  abbreviation

  capacity.
• Cy.
  Cy.

  abbreviation

  county.

cy

¹ American  

1. cycle; cycles.

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Cy ² American  

[sahy] / saɪ /

noun

1. a male given name, form of Cyrus.

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CY ³ American  

1. calendar year.

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-cy ⁴ American  

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.

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cy. ⁵ American  

abbreviation

1. capacity.

2. currency.

3. cycle; cycles.

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Cy. ⁶ American  

abbreviation

1. county.

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-cy ¹ British  

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

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CY ² British  

abbreviation

1. Cyprus (international car registration)

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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

Because of cy pres, however, that number is entirely imaginary.

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

The decision marked the latest by a court to address so-called cy pres awards in class actions, in which money is dedicated to charity rather than distributed to the plaintiffs themselves.

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

Schlittler has been a revelation this season, posting an American League-best 2.19 ERA to emerge as the Cy Young front-runner.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 18, 2026

The Dodgers found their way out of their recent downward spiral, though, and that was enough of a relief for their new ace and back-to-back Cy Young winner.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 11, 2026

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

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

When Phaethon passes close to the Sun, its surface temperature rises to about 800°C. The CY meteorite group fits this well.

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

His ship was a Starflite class, Serial CY 122439.

From Noble Redman by Jesse F. (Jesse Franklin) Bone

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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