cáinte

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See also: cainte

Irish

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

From Old Irish cáinte (“satirist, lampooner”), from cáinid (“reviles, rails at, reproaches”).

Noun

cáinte m (genitive singular cáinte, nominative plural cáintí)

  1. (literary) satirist, lampooner
Declension
Declension of cáinte (fourth declension)
bare forms
case singular plural
nominative cáinte cáintí
vocative a cháinte a cháintí
genitive cáinte cáintí
dative cáinte cáintí
forms with the definite article
case singular plural
nominative an cáinte na cáintí
genitive an cháinte na gcáintí
dative leis an gcáinte
don cháinte 		leis na cáintí
Derived terms

Etymology 2

Participle

cáinte

  1. past participle of cáin

Mutation

Mutated forms of cáinte
radical lenition eclipsis
cáinte cháinte gcáinte

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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