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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

While appropriate in the trust context, cy pres’s application to class-action suits enables attorneys to bilk their clients by claiming it would be too difficult to distribute the money to class members.

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

With two-time Cy Young Award winner Tarik Skubal a likely candidate to be traded within the next couple of weeks, the team best equipped to land him is the one that needs him the least.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 13, 2026

In April, he seemed like a Cy Young contender with a 5-0 record and five scoreless starts.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 30, 2026

But for a Cy Young candidate who, as part of a six-man rotation, won’t pitch in as many games as his competition, efficiency matters.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 4, 2026

Shohei Ohtani has put up a 0.38 ERA to begin his quest to win the Cy Young Award.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 25, 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

All of these minerals supported the connection to the CY meteorites, especially iron sulfide.

From Science Daily ● Nov. 28, 2023

The 2020 AL CY Young winner was dialed in, pitching like the staff ace he’s been for years in Cleveland and could be elsewhere going forward.

From Seattle Times ● Sep. 27, 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

CY WARMAN, "The Story of the Railroad," 1898.

From The Passing of the Frontier; a chronicle of the old West by Hough, Emerson

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 Howes, Clifton Armstrong

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 Smiles, Samuel

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