poitigéir

Irish

Etymology

An alteration of Middle Irish potecaire (assimilated to the suffix -éir), from Old French apotecaire, from Medieval Latin apothēcārius (“storekeeper”), from Latin apothēca (“repository, storehouse, warehouse”), from Ancient Greek ἀποθήκη (apothḗkē, “a repository, storehouse”).

Noun

poitigéir m (genitive singular poitigéara, nominative plural poitigéirí)

1. pharmacist, druggist, chemist, apothecary

   Synonym: cógaiseoir

Declension

Declension of poitigéir (third declension)

bare forms case singular plural nominative poitigéir poitigéirí vocative a phoitigéir a phoitigéirí genitive poitigéara poitigéirí dative poitigéir poitigéirí forms with the definite article case singular plural nominative an poitigéir na poitigéirí genitive an phoitigéara na bpoitigéirí dative leis an bpoitigéir don phoitigéir leis na poitigéirí

Derived terms

• poitigéireacht f (“pharmaceutics”)
• siopa poitigéara m (“chemist's, pharmacy”)

 

Mutation

Mutated forms of poitigéir

radical	lenition	eclipsis
poitigéir	phoitigéir	bpoitigéir

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Modern Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

Further reading

• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “potecaire”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “poitigéir”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
• de Bhaldraithe, Tomás (1959) “poitigéir”, in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm
• “poitigéir”, in New English-Irish Dictionary, Foras na Gaeilge, 2013-2024