ingearach
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Irish[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From ingear (“perpendicular”) + -ach.
Adjective[edit]
ingearach (genitive singular masculine ingearaigh, genitive singular feminine ingearaí, plural ingearacha, not comparable)
- perpendicular, vertical, upright; plumb, sheer
- (geometry, mathematics, statistics, software engineering) orthogonal
Declension[edit]
Declension of ingearach
| Singular | Plural (m/f) | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Positive | Masculine | Feminine | (strong noun) | (weak noun) |
| Nominative | ingearach | ingearach | ingearacha | |
| Vocative | ingearaigh | ingearacha | ||
| Genitive | ingearaí | ingearacha | ingearach | |
| Dative | ingearach | ingearach; ingearaigh (archaic) |
ingearacha | |
| Comparative | níos ingearaí | |||
| Superlative | is ingearaí | |||
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Mutation[edit]
| Irish mutation | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Radical | Eclipsis | with h-prothesis | with t-prothesis |
| ingearach | n-ingearach | hingearach | not applicable |
| Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. | |||
Further reading[edit]
- Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “ingearach”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
- “perpendicular”, in New English-Irish Dictionary, Foras na Gaeilge, 2013–2024
- “upright”, in New English-Irish Dictionary, Foras na Gaeilge, 2013–2024
- “vertical”, in New English-Irish Dictionary, Foras na Gaeilge, 2013–2024