Irish
Etymology
From Middle Irish literdacht, from Old Irish litredacht (“booklearning, literature”) (compare modern liteartha), from liter (“letter”) (compare modern litir).
Noun
litríocht f (genitive singular litríochta, nominative plural litríochtaí)
- literature
Declension
Declension of litríocht (third declension)
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References
- Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “litríocht”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
- Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “literdacht”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language