ciméara

• ciméar, cimír

From Latin chimaera, from Ancient Greek χίμαιρα (khímaira, “chimera; female goat”), from χίμαρος (khímaros, “male goat”), from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰey-.

ciméara m (genitive singular ciméara, nominative plural ciméaraí)

1. chimera (foolish thought, product of the imagination)
2. (genetics) chimera (organism with genetically distinct cells from two or more zygotes)

• ciméarach (“chimerical”)
• fág ciméara ar (“to scar permanently”)

• “ciméara”, in Historical Irish Corpus, 1600–1926, Royal Irish Academy
• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “címéra”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
• Dinneen, Patrick S. (1927) “ciméara”, in Foclóir Gaeḋilge agus Béarla, 2nd edition, Dublin: Irish Texts Society, page 190; reprinted with additions 1996, →ISBN
• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “ciméara”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN