scaoilteacht

Irish

Etymology

From scaoilte (“loose”) +‎ -acht.

Noun

scaoilteacht f (genitive singular scaoilteachta)

1. looseness, slackness; laxity
2. (medicine) looseness of bowels, diarrhea
3. lavishness

Declension

Declension of scaoilteacht (third declension, no plural)

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

Derived terms

• tréscaoilteacht (“permeability”)

Related terms

• inní scaoilteacha, putóga scaoilteacha (“loose bowels”)

References

• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “scaoilteacht”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN