pleorach

Irish

Etymology

From pleora (“pleura”) +‎ -ach (adjectival suffix).

Adjective

pleorach (genitive singular masculine pleoraigh, genitive singular feminine pleoraí, plural pleoracha, not comparable)

1. pleural

Declension

Declension of pleorach

	singular		plural (m/f)
Positive	masculine	feminine	(strong noun)	(weak noun)
nominative	pleorach	phleorach	pleoracha; phleoracha2
vocative	phleoraigh		pleoracha
genitive		pleoraí	pleoracha	pleorach
dative	pleorach; phleorach1	phleorach; phleoraigh (archaic)	pleoracha; phleoracha2
Comparative	níos pleoraí
Superlative	is pleoraí

¹ When the preceding noun is lenited and governed by the definite article.
² When the preceding noun ends in a slender consonant.

Related terms

• pleora(i)- (“pleur(o)-”)

Mutation

Mutated forms of pleorach

radical	lenition	eclipsis
pleorach	phleorach	bpleorach

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) “pleorach”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN