reithine

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Irish

Etymology

From Middle Irish reithine (“calm, tranquillity”).

Noun

reithine f (genitive singular reithine)

  1. (literary) calm, tranquillity

Declension

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

Middle Irish

Alternative forms

Etymology

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Noun

reithine f

  1. calm, tranquillity
    • c. 1400, Anonymous, In Cath Catharda, translated by Whitley Stokes, line 172:
      Ro fuirigh-sium fri ré in gemridh i Sleib Elpa, ⁊ tainic la tinnscetal na reithine errchaidhe co sochraidi moir leis ó chliamuin .i. Poimp Maighe […]
      During the season of winter he waited in the Alps, and at the beginning of the vernal serenity he came, having a great host from his son-in-law Pompey the Great

Derived terms

Descendants

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