crón

See also: Cron and cron

Irish

Etymology

From Old Irish crón (name of a colour, brown, reddish-brown, dark yellow, red)

Adjective

crón (genitive singular masculine cróin, genitive singular feminine cróine, plural cróna, comparative cróine)

  1. tawny, swarthy

Declension

Declension of crón
Positive singular plural
masculine feminine strong noun weak noun
nominative crón chrón cróna;
chróna2
vocative chróin cróna
genitive cróne cróna crón
dative crón;
chrón1
chrón;
chróin (archaic)
cróna;
chróna2
Comparative níos cróne
Superlative is cróne

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

Noun

crón m (genitive singular cróin)

  1. tawny, swarthy color

Declension

Declension of crón (first declension, no plural)
bare forms
singular
nominative crón
vocative a chróin
genitive cróin
dative crón
forms with the definite article
singular
nominative an crón
genitive an chróin
dative leis an gcrón
don chrón

Verb

crón (present analytic crónann, future analytic crónfaidh, verbal noun crónadh, past participle crónta)

  1. (ambitransitive) synonym of crónaigh

Conjugation

Derived terms

  • crónachan m (dusk)
  • crónaigh (to darken, verb)
  • crónbhuí (dark yellow, adjective)
  • cróndearg (dark red, adjective)

Mutation

Mutated forms of crón
radical lenition eclipsis
crón chrón gcrón

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Modern Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

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