meadaracht

Irish

Etymology

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Noun

meadaracht f (genitive singular meadarachta, nominative plural meadarachtaí)

1. (prosody) meter
2. (literature, music) metrics

Declension

Declension of meadaracht (third declension)

bare forms case singular plural nominative meadaracht meadarachtaí vocative a mheadaracht a mheadarachtaí genitive meadarachta meadarachtaí dative meadaracht meadarachtaí forms with the definite article case singular plural nominative an mheadaracht na meadarachtaí genitive na meadarachta na meadarachtaí dative leis an meadaracht don mheadaracht leis na meadarachtaí

Derived terms

• aiste mheadarachta
• scéim mheadarachta

Related terms

• meadarach

Mutation

Mutated forms of meadaracht

radical	lenition	eclipsis
meadaracht	mheadaracht	not applicable

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) “meadaracht”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
• de Bhaldraithe, Tomás (1959) “meadaracht”, in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm
• “meadaracht”, in New English-Irish Dictionary, Foras na Gaeilge, 2013-2024