tréatúir

Irish

Etymology

From Middle Irish trétúir, from Middle English traytour, from Old French traïtor, from Latin trāditor.

Noun

tréatúir m (genitive singular tréatúra, nominative plural tréatúirí)

1. traitor; treacherous person

   Synonym: fealltóir

Declension

Declension of tréatúir (third declension)

bare forms case singular plural nominative tréatúir tréatúirí vocative a thréatúir a thréatúirí genitive tréatúra tréatúirí dative tréatúir tréatúirí forms with the definite article case singular plural nominative an tréatúir na tréatúirí genitive an tréatúra na dtréatúirí dative leis an tréatúir don tréatúir leis na tréatúirí

Derived terms

• tréatúireacht f (“treason; treachery”)
• tréatúrtha (“traitorous, treacherous”, adjective)

 

Mutation

Mutated forms of tréatúir

radical	lenition	eclipsis
tréatúir	thréatúir	dtréatúir

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

References

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

Further reading

• de Bhaldraithe, Tomás (1959) “tréatúir”, in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm
• “tréatúir”, in New English-Irish Dictionary, Foras na Gaeilge, 2013-2024