reacaire

Irish

Etymology

From Old Irish reccaire, recaire (“seller, vendor”). Equivalent to reic +‎ -aire.

Noun

reacaire m (genitive singular reacaire, nominative plural reacairí)

  1. seller, vendor; crier of wares
  2. reciter of poems, narrator; declaimer, ranter
  3. newsmonger, gossip

Declension
Declension of reacaire

Fourth declension

Bare forms

Case Singular Plural
Nominative reacaire reacairí
Vocative a reacaire a reacairí
Genitive reacaire reacairí
Dative reacaire reacairí

Forms with the definite article

Case Singular Plural
Nominative an reacaire na reacairí
Genitive an reacaire na reacairí
Dative leis an reacaire

don reacaire

 leis na reacairí

Synonyms

Derived terms
  • reacaireacht (“(act of) selling, offering for sale; (act of) reciting, narrating, in public; (act of) ranting; talebearing, gossiping”)

Further reading
  • Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977), “reacaire”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
  • “narrator”, in New English-Irish Dictionary, Foras na Gaeilge, 2013–2023
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