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Irish
Etymology
From roc (“wrinkle, ruck, crease, pucker”) + -ach (adjectival suffix).
Adjective
rocach (genitive singular masculine rocaigh, genitive singular feminine rocaí, plural rocacha, comparative rocaí)
- wrinkled, creased
- Synonym: roctha
- corrugated
- Synonyms: feacach, iomaireach, roctha
- (geology) rugose
Declension
Further reading
- Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “rocach”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
- de Bhaldraithe, Tomás (1959) “rocach”, in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm
- “rocach”, in New English-Irish Dictionary, Foras na Gaeilge, 2013-2024