págán

See also: pagan, Pagan, and păgân

Irish

Etymology

Borrowed from Medieval Latin or Ecclesiastical Latin pāgānus (“pagan; originally rural, rustic”).

Noun

págán m (genitive singular págáin, nominative plural págáin)

1. Synonym of págánach (“pagan, heathen”)

Declension

Declension of págán

First declension

Bare forms: Case Singular Plural Nominative págán págáin Vocative a phágáin a phágána Genitive págáin págán Dative págán págáin

Forms with the definite article: Case Singular Plural Nominative an págán na págáin Genitive an phágáin na bpágán Dative leis an bpágán don phágán leis na págáin

Derived terms

• págánach (“pagan, heathen”, adjective)
• págántacht f (“paganism”)

 

Mutation

Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Eclipsis
págán	phágán	bpágán
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Further reading

• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “págánach”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
• G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “págán”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language