cléireach

See also: clèireach and Clèireach

Irish

Etymology

From Old Irish cléirech (“cleric; clerk”), from Late Latin clēricus, from Ancient Greek κληρικός (klērikós).

Noun

cléireach m (genitive singular cléirigh, nominative plural cléirigh)

1. clerk
2. (historical) cleric
3. altar boy
4. sexton

Declension

Declension of cléireach

First declension

Bare forms: Case Singular Plural Nominative cléireach cléirigh Vocative a chléirigh a chléireacha Genitive cléirigh cléireach Dative cléireach cléirigh

Forms with the definite article: Case Singular Plural Nominative an cléireach na cléirigh Genitive an chléirigh na gcléireach Dative leis an gcléireach don chléireach leis na cléirigh

Derived terms

• ardchléireach (“head clerk”)
• banchléireach (“female clerk”)
• cléireach loingis (“shipping-clerk”)
• cléireach túise (“incense-bearer”)
• cléireach-chlóscríobhaí (“clerk-typist”)
• mac-chléireach (“clerical student”)

 

Mutation

Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Eclipsis
cléireach	chléireach	gcléireach
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Further reading

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