scaoilteacht

Irish

Etymology

From scaoilte (“loose”) +‎ -acht.

Noun

scaoilteacht f (genitive singular scaoilteachta)

  1. looseness, slackness; laxity
  2. (medicine) looseness of bowels, diarrhea
  3. lavishness

Declension

Declension of scaoilteacht (third declension, no plural)
bare forms
singular
nominative scaoilteacht
vocative a scaoilteacht
genitive scaoilteachta
dative scaoilteacht
forms with the definite article
singular
nominative an scaoilteacht
genitive na scaoilteachta
dative leis an scaoilteacht
don scaoilteacht

Derived terms

  • inní scaoilteacha, putóga scaoilteacha (“loose bowels”)

References

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