Rómánach
See also: Ròmanach
Old Irish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Adjective
[edit]Rómánach
- Roman
- Synonym: Rómánda
- c. 845, St Gall Glosses on Priscian, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1975, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. II, pp. 49–224, Sg. 33a11
- a tír Rómánach, arindí a[d]·trebat Romáin and.
- the Roman land, because the Romans live there.
Inflection
[edit]| o/ā-stem | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Singular | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter |
| Nominative | Rómánach | Rómánach | Rómánach |
| Vocative | Rómánaig* Rómánach** | ||
| Accusative | Rómánach | Rómánaig | |
| Genitive | Rómánaig | Rómánaige | Rómánaig |
| Dative | Rómánuch | Rómánaig | Rómánuch |
| Plural | Masculine | Feminine/neuter | |
| Nominative | Rómánaig | Rómánacha | |
| Vocative | Rómánachu Rómánacha† | ||
| Accusative | Rómánachu Rómánacha† | ||
| Genitive | Rómánach | ||
| Dative | Rómánachaib | ||
| Notes | *modifying a noun whose vocative is different from its nominative **modifying a noun whose vocative is identical to its nominative | ||
Related terms
[edit]- Róm (“Rome”)
Descendants
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “Rómánach”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language