adhaltranach

Irish

Etymology

From Old Irish adaltrannach (“adulterous”), from adaltair (“adulterer”), from Latin adulter.

Adjective

adhaltranach (genitive singular masculine adhaltranaigh, genitive singular feminine adhaltranaí, plural adhaltranacha, comparative adhaltranaí)

1. Alternative form of adhaltrach

Declension

Declension of adhaltranach

	Singular		Plural (m/f)
Positive	Masculine	Feminine	(strong noun)	(weak noun)
Nominative	adhaltranach	adhaltranach	adhaltranacha
Vocative	adhaltranaigh		adhaltranacha
Genitive		adhaltranaí	adhaltranacha	adhaltranach
Dative	adhaltranach	adhaltranach; adhaltranaigh (archaic)	adhaltranacha
Comparative	níos adhaltranaí
Superlative	is adhaltranaí

Noun

adhaltranach m (genitive singular adhaltranaigh, nominative plural adhaltranaigh)

1. Alternative form of adhaltrach

Declension

Declension of adhaltranach

First declension

Bare forms: Case Singular Plural Nominative adhaltranach adhaltranaigh Vocative a adhaltranaigh a adhaltranacha Genitive adhaltranaigh adhaltranach Dative adhaltranach adhaltranaigh

Forms with the definite article: Case Singular Plural Nominative an t-adhaltranach na hadhaltranaigh Genitive an adhaltranaigh na n-adhaltranach Dative leis an adhaltranach don adhaltranach leis na hadhaltranaigh

Mutation

Irish mutation
Radical	Eclipsis	with h-prothesis	with t-prothesis
adhaltranach	n-adhaltranach	hadhaltranach	not applicable
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Further reading

• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “adhaltrach”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “adaltrannach”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

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Scottish Gaelic

Etymology

From Old Irish adaltrannach (“adulterous”), from adaltair (“adulterer”), from Latin adulter.

Adjective

adhaltranach

1. adulterous

Related terms

• adhaltraiche
• adhaltranas
• ban-adhaltraiche

 

Mutation

Scottish Gaelic mutation
Radical	Eclipsis	with h-prothesis	with t-prothesis
adhaltranach	n-adhaltranach	h-adhaltranach	t-adhaltranach
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), “adaltrannach”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language