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Irish
Etymology
From Latin chimaera, from Ancient Greek χίμαιρα (khímaira, “chimera; female goat”), from χίμαρος (khímaros, “male goat”), from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰey-.
Noun
ciméara m (genitive singular ciméara, nominative plural ciméaraí)
- chimera (foolish thought, product of the imagination)
- (genetics) chimera (organism with genetically distinct cells from two or more zygotes)
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Further reading
- “ciméara”, in Historical Irish Corpus, 1600–1926, Royal Irish Academy
- Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “címéra”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
- Dinneen, Patrick S. (1927) “ciméara”, in Foclóir Gaeḋilge agus Béarla, 2nd edition, Dublin: Irish Texts Society
- Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “ciméara”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN