aracnóideach

Irish

Etymology

From English arachnoid + -ach (compare aracnafóibe (“arachnophobia”), araicnid (“arachnid”)).

Adjective

aracnóideach (genitive singular masculine aracnóidigh, genitive singular feminine aracnóidí, plural aracnóideacha, not comparable)

1. arachnoid

Declension

Declension of aracnóideach

	singular		plural (m/f)
Positive	masculine	feminine	(strong noun)	(weak noun)
nominative	aracnóideach	aracnóideach	aracnóideacha
vocative	aracnóidigh		aracnóideacha
genitive		aracnóidí	aracnóideacha	aracnóideach
dative	aracnóideach	aracnóideach; aracnóidigh (archaic)	aracnóideacha
Comparative	níos aracnóidí
Superlative	is aracnóidí

Noun

aracnóideach m (genitive singular aracnóidigh, nominative plural aracnóidigh)

1. arachnoid

Declension

Declension of aracnóideach (first declension)

bare forms case singular plural nominative aracnóideach aracnóidigh vocative a aracnóidigh a aracnóideacha genitive aracnóidigh aracnóideach dative aracnóideach aracnóidigh forms with the definite article case singular plural nominative an t-aracnóideach na haracnóidigh genitive an aracnóidigh na n-aracnóideach dative leis an aracnóideach don aracnóideach leis na haracnóidigh

Mutation

Mutated forms of aracnóideach

radical	eclipsis	with h-prothesis	with t-prothesis
aracnóideach	n-aracnóideach	haracnóideach	not applicable

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) “aracnóideach”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN