reacaire

Irish

Etymology

From Old Irish reccaire, recaire (“seller, vendor”). Equivalent to reic +‎ -aire.

Noun

reacaire m (genitive singular reacaire, nominative plural reacairí)

1. seller, vendor; crier of wares
2. reciter of poems, narrator; declaimer, ranter
3. newsmonger, gossip

Declension

Declension of reacaire (fourth declension)

bare forms case singular plural nominative reacaire reacairí vocative a reacaire a reacairí genitive reacaire reacairí dative reacaire reacairí forms with the definite article case singular plural nominative an reacaire na reacairí genitive an reacaire na reacairí dative leis an reacaire don reacaire leis na reacairí

Synonyms

• reacadóir m

Derived terms

• reacaireacht (“(act of) selling, offering for sale; (act of) reciting, narrating, in public; (act of) ranting; talebearing, gossiping”)

Further reading

• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “reacaire”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
• “narrator”, in New English-Irish Dictionary, Foras na Gaeilge, 2013–2025