castacht

Irish

Etymology

From casta (“complicated, intricate, involved”) +‎ -acht.

Noun

castacht f (genitive singular castachta)

1. complexity, intricacy

Declension

Declension of castacht (third declension, no plural)

bare forms case singular nominative castacht vocative a chastacht genitive castachta dative castacht forms with the definite article case singular nominative an chastacht genitive na castachta dative leis an gcastacht don chastacht

Mutation

Mutated forms of castacht

radical	lenition	eclipsis
castacht	chastacht	gcastacht

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) “castacht”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
• de Bhaldraithe, Tomás (1959) “castacht”, in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm
• “castacht”, in New English-Irish Dictionary, Foras na Gaeilge, 2013-2025