pictiúr

Irish

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Old French picture, from Latin pictūra (“the art of painting, a painting”), from pingō (“I paint”).

Pronunciation

Noun

pictiúr m (genitive singular pictiúir, nominative plural pictiúir)

  1. picture
  2. painting
    Synonym: péintéireacht

Declension

Declension of pictiúr (first declension)
bare forms
singular plural
nominative pictiúr pictiúir
vocative a phictiúir a phictiúra
genitive pictiúir pictiúr
dative pictiúr pictiúir
forms with the definite article
singular plural
nominative an pictiúr na pictiúir
genitive an phictiúir na bpictiúr
dative leis an bpictiúr
don phictiúr 		leis na pictiúir

Derived terms

  • pictiúrlann f (“picture-house, cinema”)
  • pictiúrtha (“pictorial; picturesque”, adjective)

Mutation

Mutated forms of pictiúr
radical lenition eclipsis
pictiúr phictiúr bpictiúr

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

References

  1. ^ Sjoestedt, M. L. (1931) Phonétique d’un parler irlandais de Kerry [Phonetics of an Irish Dialect of Kerry] (in French), Paris: Librairie Ernest Leroux, page 30

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