trócaire

From Old Irish trócaire, from trócar.^[1]

• (Munster, Connacht) IPA^(key): /ˈt̪ˠɾˠoːkəɾʲə/^[2]
• (Ulster) IPA^(key): /ˈt̪ˠɾˠɔːkəɾʲə/

trócaire f (genitive singular trócaire)

1. mercy, pity, compassion
2. clemency, leniency, quarter

• trócaireach
  • éadrócaireach

• “trócaire”, in Historical Irish Corpus, 1600–1926, Royal Irish Academy
• Dinneen, Patrick S. (1904) “trócaire”, in Foclóir Gaeḋilge agus Béarla, 1st edition, Dublin: Irish Texts Society, page 757
• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “trócaire”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN

From trócar +‎ -e.

• IPA^(key):

trócaire f (genitive trócaire, no plural)

1. mercy
   • c. 800–825, Diarmait, Milan Glosses on the Psalms, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 7–483, Ml. 111^c13

     Is hé ru·fiastar cumachtae inna díglae do·mbi{u}r-siu húa londas, intí du·écigi{gi} is ar trócairi ⁊ censi du·bir-siu forunni siu innahí fo·daimem ré techt innúnn.

     He who will know the power of the punishment which you sg inflict by means of wrath, it is he who will see that it is for the sake of mercy and gentleness that you inflict on us here the things that we suffer before going there.

• Irish: trócaire
• Manx: trocair
• Scottish Gaelic: tròcair

• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “trócaire”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language