págán

See also: pagan, Pagan, and păgân

Irish

Etymology

Borrowed from Medieval Latin or Ecclesiastical Latin pāgānus (“pagan; originally rural, rustic”).

Noun

págán m (genitive singular págáin, nominative plural págáin)

1. Synonym of págánach (“pagan, heathen”)

Declension

Declension of págán (first declension)

bare forms case singular plural nominative págán págáin vocative a phágáin a phágána genitive págáin págán dative págán págáin forms with the definite article case singular plural nominative an págán na págáin genitive an phágáin na bpágán dative leis an bpágán don phágán leis na págáin

Derived terms

• págánach (“pagan, heathen”, adjective)
• págántacht f (“paganism”)

Mutation

Mutated forms of págán

radical	lenition	eclipsis
págán	phágán	bpágán

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