éapacht

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Irish

Etymology

From Old Irish epecht,[1] from Latin epactae, from Ancient Greek ἐπακταί (epaktaí, “intercalary days”), feminine plural of ἐπακτός (epaktós, “brought on or in, added”).

Noun

éapacht f (genitive singular éapachta)

  1. epact

Declension

Declension of éapacht (third declension, no plural)
bare forms
case singular
nominative éapacht
vocative a éapacht
genitive éapachta
dative éapacht
forms with the definite article
case singular
nominative an éapacht
genitive na héapachta
dative leis an éapacht
don éapacht

Mutation

Mutated forms of éapacht
radical eclipsis with h-prothesis with t-prothesis
éapacht n-éapacht héapacht not applicable

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

References

  1. ^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “epecht”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

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