ceartaiseach

Irish

Etymology

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Adjective

ceartaiseach (genitive singular masculine ceartaisigh, genitive singular feminine ceartaisí, plural ceartaiseacha, comparative ceartaisí)

1. insistent on one's rights
2. disinclined to do more than one's strict share of work
3. self-righteous, dogmatic
4. conceited, priggish

Declension

Declension of ceartaiseach

	singular		plural (m/f)
Positive	masculine	feminine	(strong noun)	(weak noun)
nominative	ceartaiseach	cheartaiseach	ceartaiseacha; cheartaiseacha2
vocative	cheartaisigh		ceartaiseacha
genitive		ceartaisí	ceartaiseacha	ceartaiseach
dative	ceartaiseach; cheartaiseach1	cheartaiseach; cheartaisigh (archaic)	ceartaiseacha; cheartaiseacha2
Comparative	níos ceartaisí
Superlative	is ceartaisí

¹ When the preceding noun is lenited and governed by the definite article.
² When the preceding noun ends in a slender consonant.

Mutation

Mutated forms of ceartaiseach

radical	lenition	eclipsis
ceartaiseach	cheartaiseach	gceartaiseach

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) “ceartaiseach”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
• “priggish”, in New English-Irish Dictionary, Foras na Gaeilge, 2013–2025
• “self-righteous”, in New English-Irish Dictionary, Foras na Gaeilge, 2013–2025