colaireicteach

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Irish

Etymology

Borrowed from English colorectal + -ach (compare reicteach (rectal)).

Adjective

colaireicteach (genitive singular masculine colaireictigh, genitive singular feminine colaireictí, plural colaireicteacha, not comparable)

  1. (medicine) colorectal

Declension

Declension of colaireicteach
singular plural (m/f)
Positive masculine feminine (strong noun) (weak noun)
nominative colaireicteach cholaireicteach colaireicteacha;
cholaireicteacha2
vocative cholaireictigh colaireicteacha
genitive colaireictí colaireicteacha colaireicteach
dative colaireicteach;
cholaireicteach1
cholaireicteach;
cholaireictigh (archaic)
colaireicteacha;
cholaireicteacha2
Comparative (not comparable)
Superlative (not comparable)

1 When the preceding noun is lenited and governed by the definite article.
2 When the preceding noun ends in a slender consonant.

Mutation

Mutated forms of colaireicteach
radical lenition eclipsis
colaireicteach cholaireicteach gcolaireicteach

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