rialtacht

Irish

Etymology

From Old Irish ríagaltacht (“religious profession; regularity, conformity with standard; regulating, government”). By surface analysis, rialta (“regular; bound by religious rule; habitual”) +‎ -acht.

Noun

rialtacht f (genitive singular rialtachta)

1. regularity; religious life

Declension

Declension of rialtacht (third declension, no plural)

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

Related terms

• rialtach (“regular”, adj)

References

• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “rialtacht”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “ríagaltacht”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language