CY

CY

abbr.

calendar year

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CY

abbreviation for

(Placename) Cyprus (international car registration)

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-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.

[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.

county.

cy.

1. capacity.

2. currency.

3. cycle.

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