litearthacht

From Middle Irish literdacht f (“booklearning, literature”), from Old Irish litredacht. By surface analysis, liteartha (“literary; literate”) +‎ -acht.

litearthacht f (genitive singular litearthachta)

1. literariness
2. literacy

• (antonym(s) of “literacy”): neamhlitearthacht

• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “litearthacht”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
• “literacy”, in New English-Irish Dictionary, Foras na Gaeilge, 2013–2025
• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “literdacht”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language