ropaire
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Irish[edit]
Alternative forms[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From rop (“thrust, stab”, verb) + -aire (agent noun suffix).
Noun[edit]
ropaire m (genitive singular ropaire, nominative plural ropairí)
- thruster, stabber; violent person
- cut-purse, robber; scoundrel
- (historical) rapparee
- (historical) rap (any of the tokens that passed current for a halfpenny in Ireland in the early part of the eighteenth century)
Declension[edit]
Declension of ropaire
Bare forms
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Forms with the definite article
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Derived terms[edit]
- ropaire (bóthair) (“highwayman”)
- ropaire gaid, ropaire an ghaid (“gallows-bird”)
- ropaire mná (“virago”)
- ropaire taisceadán (“safe-breaker, safecracker”)
- ropaire tí (“house-breaker”)
- ropaireacht (“stabbing, violence; snatching, thieving; villainy”)
Further reading[edit]
- Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “ropaire”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
- Entries containing “ropaire” in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm, 1959, by Tomás de Bhaldraithe.
- Entries containing “ropaire” in New English-Irish Dictionary by Foras na Gaeilge.