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Irish
Etymology
Modification, in assimilation to léacht + -óir, of earlier liachtóir, from Old Irish líachtóir, borrowed from Latin lēctor.
Pronunciation
Noun
léachtóir m (genitive singular léachtóra, nominative plural léachtóirí)
- lecturer
Declension
Further reading
- Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “léachtóir”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
- Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “líachtóir”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
- Dinneen, Patrick S. (1904) “liaċtóir”, in Foclóir Gaeḋilge agus Béarla, 1st edition, Dublin: Irish Texts Society, page 436
- de Bhaldraithe, Tomás (1959) “léachtóir”, in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm
- “léachtóir”, in New English-Irish Dictionary, Foras na Gaeilge, 2013-2024