oscar

See also: Oscar, Óscar, and Òscar

English

Etymology

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Noun

oscar (plural oscars)

1. , a cichlid fish, native to South America, sometimes kept in aquariums.

Anagrams

• AOCRs, ASROC, Carso, ROSCA, Rasco, Rocas, ocras, orcas, sacro-, sarco-

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Irish

Etymology 1

From Old Irish oscar (“outsider, new-comer, stranger; layperson, non-professional person; unskilled person, ignorant person; foe, enemy (especially an unknown one or stranger); (in late poetry) warrior, hero”).

Noun

oscar m (genitive singular oscair, nominative plural oscair)

1. (literary) warrior, hero

Etymology 2

From Old Irish oscor, oscar m (“leap, bound”).

Noun

oscar m (genitive singular oscair, nominative plural oscair)

1. leap, bound; agility
2. (swimming) stroke

Alternative forms

• ascar

Declension

Declension of oscar

First declension

Bare forms: Case Singular Plural Nominative oscar oscair Vocative a oscair a oscara Genitive oscair oscar Dative oscar oscair

Forms with the definite article: Case Singular Plural Nominative an t-oscar na hoscair Genitive an oscair na n-oscar Dative leis an oscar don oscar leis na hoscair

Mutation

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

References

• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “oscar”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “1 oscar”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “oscor”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language