coinsias

Irish

Alternative forms

• coinsiasa

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle English conscience, itself borrowed from Old French, from Latin cōnscientia.

Noun

coinsias m (genitive singular coinsiasa, nominative plural coinsiasaí)

1. conscience

Declension

Declension of coinsias (third declension)

bare forms case singular plural nominative coinsias coinsiasaí vocative a choinsias a choinsiasaí genitive coinsiasa coinsiasaí dative coinsias coinsiasaí forms with the definite article case singular plural nominative an coinsias na coinsiasaí genitive an choinsiasa na gcoinsiasaí dative leis an gcoinsias don choinsias leis na coinsiasaí

• Variant genitive singular: coinsiais

Derived terms

• coinsiasach (“conscientious”, adjective)
• coinsiasacht (“conscientiousness”)
• priocadh coinsiasa (“prick of conscience”)
• saoirse coinsiasa (“liberty of conscience”)
• scrúdú coinsiasa (“examination of conscience”)

Mutation

Mutated forms of coinsias

radical	lenition	eclipsis
coinsias	choinsias	gcoinsias

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