ciméara

Irish

Alternative forms

• ciméar, cimír

Etymology

From Latin chimaera, from Ancient Greek χίμαιρα (khímaira, “chimera; female goat”), from χίμαρος (khímaros, “male goat”), from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰey-.

Noun

ciméara m (genitive singular ciméara, nominative plural ciméaraí)

1. chimera (foolish thought, product of the imagination)
2. (genetics) chimera (organism with genetically distinct cells from two or more zygotes)

Declension

Declension of ciméara (fourth declension)

bare forms case singular plural nominative ciméara ciméaraí vocative a chiméara a chiméaraí genitive ciméara ciméaraí dative ciméara ciméaraí forms with the definite article case singular plural nominative an ciméara na ciméaraí genitive an chiméara na gciméaraí dative leis an gciméara don chiméara leis na ciméaraí

Derived terms

• ciméarach (“chimerical”)
• fág ciméara ar (“to scar permanently”)

Further reading

• “ciméara”, in Historical Irish Corpus, 1600–1926, Royal Irish Academy
• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “címéra”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
• Dinneen, Patrick S. (1927) “ciméara”, in Foclóir Gaeḋilge agus Béarla, 2nd edition, Dublin: Irish Texts Society
• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “ciméara”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN