croinic
Irish
Alternative forms
- croinicil
Etymology
From Old Irish croinic (“chronicle; history”), from Latin chronica, from Ancient Greek χρονικός (khronikós, “of or concerning time”), from χρόνος (khrónos, “time”).
Noun
croinic f (genitive singular croinice, nominative plural croinicí)
- chronicle
- Synonyms: cuntas, leabhar oiris
Declension
Declension of croinic
Second declension
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Bare forms
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Forms with the definite article
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Derived terms
- croiniceacht f (“chronicling”)
- croiniceoir m, croinicí m (“chronicler”)
- croinicigh (“chronicle”, verb)
- Leabhair na gCroinicí m pl (“the Book of Chronicles”)
Mutation
| Irish mutation | ||
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| croinic | chroinic | gcroinic |
| Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. | ||
Further reading
- Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “croinic”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
- “chronicle”, in New English-Irish Dictionary, Foras na Gaeilge, 2013–2024
- G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “croinic”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
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