adhaltrach

Irish

Etymology

From Old Irish adaltrach (“adulterous; adulterer, adulteress”), from Latin adulter + -ach.

Adjective

adhaltrach (genitive singular masculine adhaltraigh, genitive singular feminine adhaltraí, plural adhaltracha, comparative adhaltraí)

1. adulterous

Declension

Declension of adhaltrach

Positive	singular		plural
	masculine	feminine	strong noun	weak noun
nominative	adhaltrach	adhaltrach	adhaltracha
vocative	adhaltraigh		adhaltracha
genitive		adhaltraí	adhaltracha	adhaltrach
dative	adhaltrach	adhaltrach; adhaltraigh (archaic)	adhaltracha
Comparative	níos adhaltraí
Superlative	is adhaltraí

Alternative forms

• adhaltranach

Related terms

• adhaltranaigh (“adulterate”, transitive verb)
• adhaltranas m (“adultery”)

Noun

adhaltrach m (genitive singular adhaltraigh, nominative plural adhaltraigh)

1. adulterer

Declension

Declension of adhaltrach (first declension)

bare forms singular plural nominative adhaltrach adhaltraigh vocative a adhaltraigh a adhaltracha genitive adhaltraigh adhaltrach dative adhaltrach adhaltraigh forms with the definite article singular plural nominative an t-adhaltrach na hadhaltraigh genitive an adhaltraigh na n-adhaltrach dative leis an adhaltrach don adhaltrach leis na hadhaltraigh

Alternative forms

• adhaltraí, adhaltranach

Derived terms

• banadhaltrach (“adulteress”)

Mutation

Mutated forms of adhaltrach

radical	eclipsis	with h-prothesis	with t-prothesis
adhaltrach	n-adhaltrach	hadhaltrach	t-adhaltrach

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

Further reading

• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977), “adhaltrach”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “adaltrach”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
• de Bhaldraithe, Tomás (1959), “adhaltrach”, in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm
• “adhaltrach”, in New English-Irish Dictionary, Foras na Gaeilge, 2013–2025