Uachtarán

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English

Etymology

Borrowed from Irish.

Proper noun

Uachtarán

  1. Title of a person who holds the office of President of Ireland.
  2. The head of state of Ireland; the Irish president.

Usage notes

  • As a title, the word should always be capitalised.
  • As a term for the political office, the word is sometimes found in lower case.

See also

Irish

Etymology

From uachtarán (“president; headmaster; landowner”).

Noun

Uachtarán m (genitive singular Uachtaráin, nominative plural Uachtaráin)

  1. President (used as a title for the head of state of a republic)

Usage notes

Without further specification, an tUachtarán is usually interpreted to mean the President of Ireland, but the title applies to other presidents as well, e.g. an tUachtarán Obama, an tUachtarán Hollande, etc.

Declension

Declension of Uachtarán (first declension)
bare forms
case singular plural
nominative Uachtarán Uachtaráin
vocative a Uachtaráin a Uachtarána
genitive Uachtaráin Uachtarán
dative Uachtarán Uachtaráin
forms with the definite article
case singular plural
nominative an tUachtarán na hUachtaráin
genitive an Uachtaráin na nUachtarán
dative leis an Uachtarán
don Uachtarán 		leis na hUachtaráin

Mutation

Mutated forms of Uachtarán
radical eclipsis with h-prothesis with t-prothesis
Uachtarán nUachtarán hUachtarán tUachtarán

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

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