ropaire

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Irish

Alternative forms

Etymology

From rop (thrust, stab, verb) +‎ -aire (agent noun suffix).

Noun

ropaire m (genitive singular ropaire, nominative plural ropairí)

  1. thruster, stabber; violent person
  2. cut-purse, robber; scoundrel
  3. (historical) rapparee
  4. (historical) rap (any of the tokens that passed current for a halfpenny in Ireland in the early part of the eighteenth century)

Declension

Declension of ropaire (fourth declension)
bare forms
case singular plural
nominative ropaire ropairí
vocative a ropaire a ropairí
genitive ropaire ropairí
dative ropaire ropairí
forms with the definite article
case singular plural
nominative an ropaire na ropairí
genitive an ropaire na ropairí
dative leis an ropaire
don ropaire
leis na ropairí

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