coinsias

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Irish

Alternative forms

coinsiasa

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle English conscience, itself borrowed from Old French, from Latin cōnscientia.

Noun

coinsias m (genitive singular coinsiasa, nominative plural coinsiasaí)

conscience

Declension

Declension of coinsias

Third declension

Bare forms:

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	coinsias	coinsiasaí
Vocative	a choinsias	a choinsiasaí
Genitive	coinsiasa	coinsiasaí
Dative	coinsias	coinsiasaí

Forms with the definite article:

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	an coinsias	na coinsiasaí
Genitive	an choinsiasa	na gcoinsiasaí
Dative	leis an gcoinsias don choinsias	leis na coinsiasaí

Variant genitive singular: coinsiais

Derived terms

coinsiasach (“conscientious”, adjective)
coinsiasacht (“conscientiousness”)
priocadh coinsiasa (“prick of conscience”)
saoirse coinsiasa (“liberty of conscience”)
scrúdú coinsiasa (“examination of conscience”)

Mutation

Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Eclipsis
coinsias	choinsias	gcoinsias
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Further reading

Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “coinsias”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “coinsias”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

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