adhaltrach
Appearance
Irish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Old Irish adaltrach (“adulterous; adulterer, adulteress”), from adaltair + -ach, from Latin adulter.
Adjective
[edit]adhaltrach (genitive singular masculine adhaltraigh, genitive singular feminine adhaltraí, plural adhaltracha, comparative adhaltraí)
Declension
[edit]singular | plural (m/f) | |||
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Positive | masculine | feminine | (strong noun) | (weak noun) |
nominative | adhaltrach | adhaltrach | adhaltracha | |
vocative | adhaltraigh | adhaltracha | ||
genitive | adhaltraí | adhaltracha | adhaltrach | |
dative | adhaltrach | adhaltrach; adhaltraigh (archaic) |
adhaltracha | |
Comparative | níos adhaltraí | |||
Superlative | is adhaltraí |
Alternative forms
[edit]Related terms
[edit]- adhaltranaigh (“adulterate”, transitive verb)
- adhaltranas m (“adultery”)
Noun
[edit]adhaltrach m (genitive singular adhaltraigh, nominative plural adhaltraigh)
Declension
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Alternative forms
[edit]Derived terms
[edit]- banadhaltrach (“adulteress”)
Mutation
[edit]radical | eclipsis | with h-prothesis | with t-prothesis |
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adhaltrach | n-adhaltrach | hadhaltrach | t-adhaltrach |
Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Modern Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.
Further reading
[edit]- Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “adhaltrach”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
- Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “adaltrach”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
- de Bhaldraithe, Tomás (1959) “adhaltrach”, in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm
- “adhaltrach”, in New English-Irish Dictionary, Foras na Gaeilge, 2013-2025