geanmnaíocht

Irish

Alternative forms

• geanmaíocht
• geanmnaidheacht (superseded)

Etymology

From Old Irish genmnaidecht (“chastity, continence”), from genmnaide. By surface analysis, geanmnaí (“chaste, pure”, adjective) +‎ -acht.

Noun

geanmnaíocht f (genitive singular geanmnaíochta)

1. (religion) purity, chastity, continence

   Antonym: mígheanmnaíocht

Declension

Declension of geanmnaíocht (third declension, no plural)

bare forms case singular nominative geanmnaíocht vocative a gheanmnaíocht genitive geanmnaíochta dative geanmnaíocht forms with the definite article case singular nominative an gheanmnaíocht genitive na geanmnaíochta dative leis an ngeanmnaíocht don gheanmnaíocht

Mutation

Mutated forms of geanmnaíocht

radical	lenition	eclipsis
geanmnaíocht	gheanmnaíocht	ngeanmnaíocht

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) “geanmnaíocht”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “genmnaidecht”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
• de Bhaldraithe, Tomás (1959) “geanmnaíocht”, in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm
• “geanmnaíocht”, in New English-Irish Dictionary, Foras na Gaeilge, 2013-2025