Iúrasach

Irish

Etymology

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Adjective

Iúrasach (genitive singular masculine Iúrasaigh, genitive singular feminine Iúrasaí, plural Iúrasacha, not comparable)

1. (geology) Jurassic

Declension

Declension of Iúrasach

Positive	singular		plural
	masculine	feminine
nominative	Iúrasach	Iúrasach	Iúrasacha
vocative	Iúrasaigh		Iúrasacha
genitive		Iúrasaí	strong noun	weak noun
			Iúrasacha	Iúrasach
dative	Iúrasach	Iúrasach; Iúrasaigh (archaic)	Iúrasacha
Comparative	níos Iúrasaí
Superlative	is Iúrasaí

Proper noun

An tIúrasach m (genitive an Iúrasaigh)

1. (geology, paleontology) the Jurassic

   Synonym: an Tréimhse Iúrasach

Declension

Declension of Iúrasach (first declension, no plural)

bare forms case singular nominative Iúrasach vocative a Iúrasaigh genitive Iúrasaigh dative Iúrasach forms with the definite article case singular nominative an tIúrasach genitive an Iúrasaigh dative leis an Iúrasach don Iúrasach

Mutation

Mutated forms of Iúrasach

radical	eclipsis	with h-prothesis	with t-prothesis
Iúrasach	nIúrasach	hIúrasach	tIúrasach

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) “Iúrasach”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
• “Iúrasach”, in New English-Irish Dictionary, Foras na Gaeilge, 2013-2025