ainteirt

Irish

Etymology

From Old Irish anteirt (“the first daylight canonical hour”), from Latin ante tertiam (hōram).

Noun

ainteirt f (genitive singular ainteirte, nominative plural ainteirtí)

1. (Christianity) (office of) prime

Declension

Declension of ainteirt

Second declension

Bare forms Case Singular Plural Nominative ainteirt ainteirtí Vocative a ainteirt a ainteirtí Genitive ainteirte ainteirtí Dative ainteirt ainteirtí

Forms with the definite article Case Singular Plural Nominative an ainteirt na hainteirtí Genitive na hainteirte na n-ainteirtí Dative leis an ainteirt don ainteirt leis na hainteirtí

Mutation

Irish mutation
Radical	Eclipsis	with h-prothesis	with t-prothesis
ainteirt	n-ainteirt	hainteirt	not applicable
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

References

• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “ainteirt”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “anteirt”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language