oifigeach

Irish

Alternative forms

• oificeach

Etymology

From Old Irish oificech (“a person discharging duties of a post, an official, officer”), from oific (“office”).

Noun

oifigeach m (genitive singular oifigigh, nominative plural oifigigh)

1. officer (of police; military; business)
2. official (executive; of government)

Declension

Declension of oifigeach

First declension

Bare forms: Case Singular Plural Nominative oifigeach oifigigh Vocative a oifigigh a oifigeacha Genitive oifigigh oifigeach Dative oifigeach oifigigh

Forms with the definite article: Case Singular Plural Nominative an t-oifigeach na hoifigigh Genitive an oifigigh na n-oifigeach Dative leis an oifigeach don oifigeach leis na hoifigigh

Synonyms

• feidhmeannach
• garda
• saighdiúir

Derived terms

• fo-oifigeach (“subordinate officer, subaltern; subordinate official”)
• má-oifigeach (“field-officer”)
• oifigeach barántais (“warrant officer”)
• oifigeach ceannais (“commanding officer”)
• oifigeach coimisiúnta (“commissioned officer”)
• oifigeach feidhmiúcháin (“executive officer”)
• oifigeach foirne (“staff officer”)
• oifigeach neamhchoimisiúnta (“non-commissioned officer”)
• oifigeach promhaidh (“probation officer”)

 

Mutation

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

References

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