spéacla
Irish
editAlternative forms
editEtymology
editFrom Old Irish spécla, from Latin speculum (“mirror”).
Pronunciation
editNoun
editspéacla m (genitive singular spéacla, nominative plural spéaclaí)
- eyeglass
- (in the plural) eyeglasses, spectacles
Declension
editDeclension of spéacla
Bare forms
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Forms with the definite article
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Derived terms
edit- leathspéacla m (“one lens of a pair of spectacles; eyeglass, monocle”)
References
edit- Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “spéacla”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
- Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “spécla”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language