cíos

See also: Appendix:Variations of "cios"

Irish

Etymology

From Old Irish cís (“tax, tribute, cess, rent”), from Latin cēnsus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ciːsˠ/

Noun

cíos m (genitive singular cíosa, nominative plural cíosanna)

1. rent
2. (historical) tax, tribute
3. price

Declension

Declension of cíos (third declension)

bare forms case singular plural nominative cíos cíosanna vocative a chíos a chíosanna genitive cíosa cíosanna dative cíos cíosanna forms with the definite article case singular plural nominative an cíos na cíosanna genitive an chíosa na gcíosanna dative leis an gcíos don chíos leis na cíosanna

Derived terms

• ainchíos (“rack-rent”)
• ardchíos (“tribute”) (rent)
• bunchíos (“ground rent; superannuation, pension”)
• ceannchíos (“head rent”)
• cíosach (“rent-paying; tributary”, adjective)
• cíosaí m (“rent-payer”)
• cíosaigh (“rent, pay rent for; compensate for”, verb)
• cíoscháin f (“tribute”)
• cíoscheannach m (“hire-purchase”)
• daorchíos (“tributary rent”)
• dúchíos (“heavy rent or tribute; ransom for privilege or immunity”, literally “black rent”)
• fochíos (“subrent”)
• glanchíos (“net rent”)
• leathchíos (“moiety of rent”)
• measchíos (“notional rent”)
• pianchíos (“penal rent”)
• riailchíos (“standard rent”)
• ríchíos (“royalty; payment to patentee”)

Mutation

Mutated forms of cíos

radical	lenition	eclipsis
cíos	chíos	gcíos

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) “cíos”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “cís”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language