Talk:cyanope

RFV discussion: June 2017

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cyanope

cited Kiwima (talk) 20:10, 1 June 2017 (UTC)

RFV-passed Kiwima (talk) 02:03, 9 June 2017 (UTC)

it's certainly odd

That the only word in this family that has "cyan" in it is one that describes blond hair and brown eyes, and particularly so because the suffix -ope means eye. The word doesnt seem to have meant "dark" even in the original Greek, so I suspected we had made a mistake at first, but it seems that this is a modern coinage with little use and therefore that the few people using it are the ones who coined the definition. —Soap— 08:24, 14 November 2022 (UTC)

cyanopic

cyanopic (cyan + -opic) exists, so maybe cyanopia does too, which would mean that word has two senses. As for the odd lack of a term for someone with blond hair and blue eyes, it seems this author just used "light" or even blond for that, but glaucope may have taken over that meaning in later writings. Merriam Webster still lists glaucope with its more etymologically expected meaning of blond/blue-eyed. —Soap— 05:04, 6 October 2023 (UTC)