cyan

Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek κύανος (kúanos), a shade of blue variously described as similar to cornflower, copper carbonate, and lapis lazuli, Mycenaean Greek 𐀓𐀷𐀜 (ku-wa-no), possibly from Hittite (kuwannan-, “a precious stone; copper; shade of blue”). Compare modern Greek κυανός (kyanós), also used for cyan.

• IPA^(key): /ˈsaɪˌæn/, /ˈsaɪ.ən/, /saɪˈæn/
• (Canada) IPA^(key): /ˈsaɪ.ən/, /sʌɪˈæn/
  • (dialectal) IPA^(key): ,

• Audio (Southern England):

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• Rhymes: -aɪən, -æn

cyan (countable and uncountable, plural cyans)

1. An additive secondary colour midway between green and blue, evoked by wavelengths between ~490 and ~520 nm.

   cyan (additive secondary):  

   cyan (subtractive primary):  

cyan (comparative more cyan, superlative most cyan)

1. Of the colour cyan.

• haemocyanin, hemocyanin

• cyan-
• cyano-

• (blues) blue; Alice blue, aqua, aquamarine, azure, baby blue, beryl, bice, bice blue, blue green, blue violet, blueberry, cadet blue, Cambridge blue, cerulean, cobalt blue, Copenhagen blue, cornflower, cornflower blue, cyan, dark blue, Dodger blue, duck-egg blue, eggshell blue, electric blue, gentian blue, ice blue, lapis lazuli, light blue, lovat, mazarine, midnight blue, navy, Nile blue, Oxford blue, peacock blue, petrol blue, powder blue, Prussian blue, robin's-egg blue, royal blue, sapphire, saxe blue, slate blue, sky blue, teal, turquoise, ultramarine, Wedgwood blue, zaffre ^{(Category: en:Blues)}

• cyan on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

• -ancy, cany

• IPA^(key):

cyan m inan

1. (printing) cyan

Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek κύανος (kúanos).

• IPA^(key): /sjɑ̃/

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cyan m (plural cyans)

1. cyan (vibrant pale greenish-blue colour between blue and green in the visible spectrum)

   Near-synonym: céruléen

• cyaan, cyaa, cyah, cyahn, cyar

From English can't.

• IPA^(key): /kjan/

cyan

1. cannot

• cyan – jamaicans.com Jamaican Patois dictionary

cyan

1. cyan (colour)

• cyanfärgad

cyan

1. cyan (colour)
2. (colloquial) Almost any chemical compound containing a cyanide group; especially if this compound is in gaseous state.

• (colour): cyanfärg

• cyanblå

• blågrön
• cyankalium
• cyanid
• cyanväte
• turkos