caidreamhach

Irish

From caidreamh (“intercourse, intimacy”) +‎ -ach (compare Old Irish caidrebach).

caidreamhach (genitive singular masculine caidreamhaigh, genitive singular feminine caidreamhaí, plural caidreamhacha, comparative caidreamhaí)

Declension of caidreamhach

Positive	Masculine	Feminine	(strong noun)	(weak noun)
	Singular		Plural (m/f)
Nominative	caidreamhach	chaidreamhach	caidreamhacha; chaidreamhacha²
Vocative	chaidreamhaigh	chaidreamhach	caidreamhacha
Genitive	chaidreamhaigh	caidreamhaí	caidreamhacha	caidreamhach
Dative	caidreamhach; chaidreamhach¹	chaidreamhach; chaidreamhaigh (archaic)	caidreamhacha; chaidreamhacha²
Comparative	níos caidreamhaí
Superlative	is caidreamhaí

¹ When the preceding noun is lenited and governed by the definite article.
² When the preceding noun ends in a slender consonant.

caidreamhach m (genitive singular caidreamhaigh, nominative plural caidreamhaigh)

Declension of caidreamhach

Bare forms:

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	an caidreamhach	na caidreamhaigh
Genitive	an chaidreamhaigh	na gcaidreamhach
Dative	leis an gcaidreamhach don chaidreamhach	leis na caidreamhaigh

Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Eclipsis
caidreamhach	chaidreamhach	gcaidreamhach
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “caidreamhach”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “caidrebach”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
de Bhaldraithe, Tomás (1959) “caidreamhach”, in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm
“caidreamhach”, in New English-Irish Dictionary, Foras na Gaeilge, 2013-2024

From caidreabh (“fellowship, partnership, companionship”) +‎ -ach (adjectival suffix) (compare caidrebach).

caidreamhach (comparative caidreamhaiche)

caidreamhach m (genitive singular caidreamhaich, plural caidreamhaich)