reithine

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Irish[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From Middle Irish reithine (“calm, tranquillity”).

Noun[edit]

reithine f (genitive singular reithine)

  1. (literary) calm, tranquillity

Declension[edit]

Declension of reithine

Fourth declension

Bare forms (no plural of this noun)

Case Singular
Nominative reithine
Vocative a reithine
Genitive reithine
Dative reithine

Forms with the definite article

Case Singular
Nominative an reithine
Genitive na reithine
Dative leis an reithine

don reithine

Related terms[edit]

Middle Irish[edit]

Alternative forms[edit]

Etymology[edit]

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Noun[edit]

reithine f

  1. calm, tranquillity
    • c. 1400, Anonymous, In Cath Catharda, translated by Whitley Stokes, line 172:
      Ro fuirigh-sium fri ré in gemridh i Sleib Elpa, ⁊ tainic la tinnscetal na reithine errchaidhe co sochraidi moir leis ó chliamuin .i. Poimp Maighe […]
      During the season of winter he waited in the Alps, and at the beginning of the vernal serenity he came, having a great host from his son-in-law Pompey the Great […]

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Descendants[edit]

  • Irish: reithine
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