reithine

Irish

Etymology

From Middle Irish reithine (“calm, tranquillity”).

Noun

reithine f (genitive singular reithine)

1. (literary) calm, tranquillity

Declension

Declension of reithine (fourth declension, no plural)

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

Related terms

• reithineach

Middle Irish

Alternative forms

• raethini
• rethine

Etymology

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Noun

reithine f

1. calm, tranquillity
   • c. 1400, Anonymous, In Cath Catharda, translated by Whitley Stokes, line 172:

     Ro fuirigh-sium fri ré in gemridh i Sleib Elpa, ⁊ tainic la tinnscetal na reithine errchaidhe co sochraidi moir leis ó chliamuin .i. Poimp Maighe […]

     During the season of winter he waited in the Alps, and at the beginning of the vernal serenity he came, having a great host from his son-in-law Pompey the Great […]

Derived terms

• reithinech

Descendants

• Irish: reithine