cyan
An additive secondary colour midway between green and blue, evoked by wavelengths…An additive secondary colour midway between green and blue, evoked by wavelengths between ~490 and ~520 nm.
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» Cyan is a greenish-blue color.
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1 senses(countable, uncountable)An additive secondary colour midway between green and blue, evoked by wavelengths between ~490 and ~520 nm.
Zyan, Cyan
бирюзо́выйbirjuzóvyj
- a primary subtractive color for light; has a blue-green color
Examples
4 sentencesCyan is a greenish-blue color.
Oliver is going to fly a cyan kite in the blue sky.
Cyan is a greenish blue color.
ruЦиан - это зеленовато-синий цвет. — marafon
deCyan ist eine grünlich-blaue Farbe. — hectorM
Cyan is a greenish-blue colour.
ruЦиан - это зеленовато-синий цвет. — marafon
deCyan ist eine grünlich-blaue Farbe. — hectorM
Translations
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Origin
Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek κύανος (kúanos), a shade of blue variously describedLearned 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 [script needed] (kuwannan-, “a precious stone; copper; shade of blue”) - likely from Kuwanniya, all going back to kuwanna (woman), related to "queen" and γυνή. Compare modern Greek κυανός (kyanós), also used for cyan.
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Forms
plural: cyansWord family
5 related wordsLessons for this word
1 lessons- A1Countable and uncountable nouns — Because it can be uncountable
See also
neighbours in the dictionaryDictionary text adapted from Wiktionary (Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet / Princeton WordNet (CC BY 4.0, WordNet License); shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Example sentences and recordings are credited where they appear.