cyan
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English [edit]
Etymology [edit]
Ancient Greek κύανος (kyanos, “dark blue, dark blue enamel, lapis lazuli”), probably a non Indo-European word, but perhaps akin to, or from, Hittite *kuwanna(n)- "copper blue."
Noun [edit]
cyan (usually uncountable; plural cyans)
- A colour between blue and green in the visible spectrum; the complementary colour of red; the colour obtained by subtracting red from white light.
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cyan colour:
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Translations [edit]
a colour between blue and green
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Adjective [edit]
cyan (comparative more cyan, superlative most cyan)
- Of the colour cyan.
Translations [edit]
of the colour cyan
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See also [edit]
- (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, duck-egg blue, eggshell blue, electric-blue, gentian blue, ice blue, lapis lazuli, 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)
French [edit]
Noun [edit]
cyan m (plural cyans)
- cyan (color)
Swedish [edit]
Adjective [edit]
cyan
- cyan (colour)
Synonyms [edit]
Noun [edit]
cyan
- cyan (colour)
- (colloquial) Almost any chemical compound containing a cyanide group; especially if this compound is in gaseous state.
Synonyms [edit]
- (colour): cyanfärg
