poitigéir

Irish

Etymology

An alteration of Middle Irish potecaire (assimilated to the suffix -éir), from Old French apotecaire, from Medieval Latin apothēcārius (“storekeeper”), from Latin apothēca (“repository, storehouse, warehouse”), from Ancient Greek ἀποθήκη (apothḗkē, “a repository, storehouse”).

Noun

poitigéir m (genitive singular poitigéara, nominative plural poitigéirí)

1. pharmacist, druggist, chemist, apothecary

   Synonym: cógaiseoir

Declension

Declension of poitigéir

Third declension

Bare forms: Case Singular Plural Nominative poitigéir poitigéirí Vocative a phoitigéir a phoitigéirí Genitive poitigéara poitigéirí Dative poitigéir poitigéirí

Forms with the definite article: Case Singular Plural Nominative an poitigéir na poitigéirí Genitive an phoitigéara na bpoitigéirí Dative leis an bpoitigéir don phoitigéir leis na poitigéirí

Derived terms

• poitigéireacht f (“pharmaceutics”)
• siopa poitigéara m (“chemist's, pharmacy”)

 

Mutation

Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Eclipsis
poitigéir	phoitigéir	bpoitigéir
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Further reading

• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “potecaire”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “poitigéir”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
• de Bhaldraithe, Tomás (1959) “poitigéir”, in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm
• “poitigéir”, in New English-Irish Dictionary, Foras na Gaeilge, 2013-2024