cyan

From Ancient Greek κύανος (kúanos, “blue, various blue materials or things”), probably a loanword from or akin to Hittite [script needed] (kuwannan-, “precious stone, copper, blue”), itself of unknown origin.

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

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• Rhymes: -aɪən, -æn

cyan (countable and uncountable, plural cyans)

1. A vibrant pale greenish-blue colour between blue and green in the visible spectrum; the complementary colour of red; the colour obtained by subtracting red from white light.

   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): [ˈt͡sɪjan]

cyan m

1. (printing) cyan

From Ancient Greek κύανος (kúanos).

• IPA^(key): /sjɑ̃/

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cyan m (plural cyans)

1. cyan (color)

• 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