caoine

Irish

Etymology

From Old Irish caíne (“gentleness, pleasantness, beauty”), from caín (“fine, good, fair, beautiful; soft, smooth; soft, gentle; fine, clement”). By surface analysis, caoin +‎ -e.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkiːnʲə/

Noun

caoine f (genitive singular caoine)

1. smoothness, gentleness

Declension

Declension of caoine

Fourth declension

Bare forms (no plural of this noun) Case Singular Nominative caoine Vocative a chaoine Genitive caoine Dative caoine

Forms with the definite article Case Singular Nominative an chaoine Genitive na caoine Dative leis an gcaoine don chaoine

Synonyms

• caoineas

Derived terms

• eascaoine (“ungentleness, roughness”)

Adjective

caoine

1. inflection of caoin (“smooth, polished; kind, gentle”):
   1. genitive feminine singular
   2. nominative/vocative/dative/strong genitive plural
   3. comparative degree

Mutation

Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Eclipsis
caoine	chaoine	gcaoine
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Further reading

• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “caoine”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
• G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “1 caíne”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

Scottish Gaelic

Noun

caoine f

1. genitive singular of caoin