écubus

Old Irish

Etymology

From é- +‎ cubus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈeːɡuvus/

Noun

écubus m

1. want of conscience, unscrupulousness
2. (law) bad faith, fraud, culpable remissness

Inflection

Masculine u-stem
	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	écubus	—	—
Vocative	écubus	—	—
Accusative	écubusN	—	—
Genitive	écubsoH, écubsaH	—	—
Dative	écubusL	—	—
Initial mutations of a following adjective: H = triggers aspiration L = triggers lenition N = triggers nasalization

Antonyms

• cubus

Descendants

• Irish: éagúis

Mutation

Old Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Nasalization
écubus	unchanged	n-écubus
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Further reading

• Gregory Toner, Maire Ní Mhaonaigh, Sharon Arbuthnot, Dagmar Wodtko, Maire-Luise Theuerkauf, editors (2019) , “éccubus”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language