uiliteoir

Irish

Etymology

uile (“all”) +‎ -teoir (“-er”)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɪlʲətʲoːɾʲ/

Noun

uiliteoir m (genitive singular uiliteóra, nominative plural uiliteoirí)

1. omnivore (person who eats both meat and plants)

Declension

Declension of uiliteoir (third declension)

bare forms case singular plural nominative uiliteoir uiliteoirí vocative a uiliteoir a uiliteoirí genitive uiliteóra uiliteoirí dative uiliteoir uiliteoirí forms with the definite article case singular plural nominative an t-uiliteoir na huiliteoirí genitive an uiliteóra na n-uiliteoirí dative leis an uiliteoir don uiliteoir leis na huiliteoirí

Related terms

• uiliteach (“omnivorous”)

Mutation

Mutated forms of uiliteoir

radical	eclipsis	with h-prothesis	with t-prothesis
uiliteoir	n-uiliteoir	huiliteoir	t-uiliteoir

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

Further reading

• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “uiliteoir”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
• “uiliteoir”, in New English-Irish Dictionary, Foras na Gaeilge, 2013-2024