cíocras

Irish

Etymology

From Old Irish cíccaras, cícras (“greed”). By surface analysis, cíocra (“swallow hole”) +‎ -as).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈciːkɾˠəsˠ/

Noun

cíocras m (genitive singular cíocrais)

1. greed, eagerness (for food, etc.)
2. avarice

   Synonyms: gabhálacht, saint

Declension

Declension of cíocras (first declension, no plural)

bare forms case singular nominative cíocras vocative a chíocrais genitive cíocrais dative cíocras forms with the definite article case singular nominative an cíocras genitive an chíocrais dative leis an gcíocras don chíocras

Derived terms

• cíocras fola (“bloodthirstiness”)
• cíocras gnéis (“virility”)
• cíocrasach (“greedy, eager”)
• cíocrasán (“greedy, hungry person or animal; glutton”)

 

Mutation

Mutated forms of cíocras

radical	lenition	eclipsis
cíocras	chíocras	gcíocras

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

References

• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “cíocras”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “cíccaras”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
• de Bhaldraithe, Tomás (1959) “cíocras”, in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm
• “cíocras”, in New English-Irish Dictionary, Foras na Gaeilge, 2013-2024