croinic
Irish edit
Alternative forms edit
Etymology edit
From Old Irish croinic (“chronicle; history”), from Latin chronica, from Ancient Greek χρονικός (khronikós, “of or concerning time”), from χρόνος (khrónos, “time”).
Noun edit
croinic f (genitive singular croinice, nominative plural croinicí)
- chronicle
- Synonyms: cuntas, leabhar oiris
Declension edit
Declension of croinic
Bare forms
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Forms with the definite article
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Derived terms edit
- croiniceacht f (“chronicling”)
- croiniceoir m, croinicí m (“chronicler”)
- croinicigh (“chronicle”, verb)
- Leabhair na gCroinicí m pl (“the Book of Chronicles”)
Mutation edit
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Radical | Lenition | Eclipsis |
croinic | chroinic | gcroinic |
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. |
Further reading edit
- 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