cyan

USSY-an/ˈsaɪˌæn/

2 meanings of cyan

1
color namenouncountable or uncountable
An additive secondary color midway between green and blue, produced by light of roughly 490 to 520 nanometers.
The designer chose cyan for the brand's background.
Printers combine cyan with magenta and yellow to reproduce a full range of colors.
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2
having that coloradjective
Of a blue-green color sitting midway between green and blue.
The sports car came with a striking cyan finish.
He picked the cyan tiles to brighten the small bathroom.
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Origin

The word is a learned borrowing of Ancient Greek κύανος (kúanos), the name of a blue that writers compared to cornflower, copper carbonate, or lapis lazuli. The Greek word goes back to Mycenaean Greek ku-wa-no and may come from a Hittite word meaning "a precious stone, copper, shade of blue."