caoine

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Irish

Etymology

From Old Irish caíne (“gentleness, pleasantness, beauty”), from caín (“fine, good, fair, beautiful; soft, smooth; soft, gentle; fine, clement”). By surface analysis, caoin +‎ -e.

Pronunciation

Noun

caoine f (genitive singular caoine)

  1. smoothness, gentleness

Declension

Declension of caoine (fourth declension, no plural)
bare forms
case singular
nominative caoine
vocative a chaoine
genitive caoine
dative caoine
forms with the definite article
case singular
nominative an chaoine
genitive na caoine
dative leis an gcaoine
don chaoine

Synonyms

Derived terms

Adjective

caoine

  1. inflection of caoin (“smooth, polished; kind, gentle”):
    1. genitive feminine singular
    2. nominative/vocative/dative/strong genitive plural
    3. comparative degree

Mutation

Mutated forms of caoine
radical lenition eclipsis
caoine chaoine gcaoine

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

Further reading

Scottish Gaelic

Noun

caoine f

  1. genitive singular of caoin
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