Críost

Irish

Alternative forms

• Críosta

Etymology

From Old Irish Críst, from Latin Chrīstus, from Ancient Greek Χρῑστός (Khrīstós), proper noun use of χρῑστός (khrīstós, “anointed”), a semantic loan of Biblical Hebrew מָשִׁיחַ (māšîaḥ, “anointed”)).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /cɾʲiːsˠt̪ˠ/

Proper noun

Críost m (genitive Chríost)

1. Christ

Derived terms

• cairdeas Críost (“sponsorship, gossipred; godparent”)
• cara as Críost (“godparent, baptismal sponsor”)
• Críostaí (“Christian”)
• Íosa Críost (“Jesus Christ”)

Mutation

Mutated forms of Críost

radical	lenition	eclipsis
Críost	Chríost	gCríost

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Modern Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

Further reading

• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “Críost”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “Críst”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language