croseagar

Irish

Etymology

From cros- +‎ eagar.

Noun

croseagar m (genitive singular croseagair)

1. (rhetoric) chiasmus

Declension

Declension of croseagar (first declension, no plural)

bare forms singular nominative croseagar vocative a chroseagair genitive croseagair dative croseagar forms with the definite article singular nominative an croseagar genitive an chroseagair dative leis an gcroseagar don chroseagar

Mutation

Mutated forms of croseagar

radical	lenition	eclipsis
croseagar	chroseagar	gcroseagar

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) “croseagar”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
• de Bhaldraithe, Tomás (1959) “croseagar”, in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm