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Nov 30, 2009
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Cy



Pronunciation: (sī), [key]
—n.
a male given name, form of Cyrus.

CY




calendar year.

cy




cycle; cycles.

-cy




1. a suffix used to form abstract nouns from adjectives with stems in -t, -te, -tic, and esp. -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.

Cy.




county.

cy.




1. capacity.
2. currency.
3. cycle; cycles.

Random House Unabridged Dictionary, Copyright © 1997, by Random House, Inc., on Infoplease.

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