cúirt

See also: cuirt and cùirt

Irish

Alternative forms

• cuairt

Etymology

From Middle Irish cúirt, from Middle English court, from Old French cort, from Late Latin cōrs, contraction of Latin cohors. Replaced Old Irish cuirt, which was borrowed directly from Latin. Cognate with Manx cooyrt and Scottish Gaelic cùirt.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kuːɾˠtʲ/

Noun

cúirt f (genitive singular cúirte, nominative plural cúirteanna)

1. court
2. (law) courthouse
3. manor house, mansion
4. courtyard

Declension

Declension of cúirt (second declension)

bare forms singular plural nominative cúirt cúirteanna vocative a chúirt a chúirteanna genitive cúirte cúirteanna dative cúirt cúirteanna forms with the definite article singular plural nominative an chúirt na cúirteanna genitive na cúirte na gcúirteanna dative leis an gcúirt don chúirt leis na cúirteanna

Derived terms

• ardchúirt (“high court”)
• cúirt bhradach (“kangaroo court”)
• cúirtbhanna (“recognizance”)
• cúirteoir (“courtier”)
• cúirtghairm (“court proclamation”)
• cúirtiúil (“courtly”, adjective)
• giolla cúirte (“court attendant”)

Mutation

Mutated forms of cúirt

radical	lenition	eclipsis
cúirt	chúirt	gcúirt

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Modern Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

Further reading

• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977), “cúirt”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN