patuar
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Irish
[edit]Etymology
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Adjective
[edit]patuar (genitive singular masculine patuair, genitive singular feminine patuaire, plural patuara, comparative patuaire)
- lukewarm; apathetic, indifferent (i (“to”))
Declension
[edit]Declension of patuar
| Singular | Plural (m/f) | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Positive | Masculine | Feminine | (strong noun) | (weak noun) |
| Nominative | patuar | phatuar | patuara; phatuara² | |
| Vocative | phatuair | patuara | ||
| Genitive | patuare | patuara | patuar | |
| Dative | patuar; phatuar¹ |
phatuar; phatuair (archaic) |
patuara; phatuara² | |
| Comparative | níos patuare | |||
| Superlative | is patuare | |||
¹ When the preceding noun is lenited and governed by the definite article.
² When the preceding noun ends in a slender consonant.
Synonyms
[edit]- (apathetic): fuar, fuarchúiseach, marbh, suanach
- (lukewarm, indifferent): fuarbhruite, fuarspreosach, lagspreosach
Related terms
[edit]- patuaire f (“tepidity; apathy”)
Mutation
[edit]| Irish mutation | ||
|---|---|---|
| Radical | Lenition | Eclipsis |
| patuar | phatuar | bpatuar |
| Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. | ||
References
[edit]- Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “patuar”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN