consecra

Latin

Verb

cōnsecrā

1. second-person singular present active imperative of cōnsecrō

Old Irish

Etymology

From Latin cōnsecrō, with the Latin prefix con- mapped onto the Old Irish prefix com-.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /konˈsʲe.ɡɾa/

Verb

con·secra (prototonic ·cosecra, verbal noun cosecrad)

1. to consecrate, dedicate, sanctify

Conjugation

Complex, class A I present, s preterite, f future, a subjunctive

		active						passive
		singular			plural			singular	plural
		1st	2nd	3rd	1st	2nd	3rd
present indicative	deut.	con·secraim, con·secraimm							con·sacratar
	prot.			·cosecra
imperfect indicative	deut.			con·secrad				con·secarthe
	prot.
preterite	deut.			cut·secar (with infixed pronoun d-)
	prot.
perfect	deut.							con·asecrad (with augment ad-)
	prot.
future	deut.	con·sacrub					ɔ·secrabat
	prot.
conditional	deut.
	prot.
present subjunctive	deut.								con·sacratar
	prot.			·cosecra
past subjunctive	deut.			con·secrad				con·secarthe
	prot.
imperative
verbal noun		cosecrad, cossecrad
past participle		cosecarthae
verbal of necessity

Descendants

• Middle Irish: coisecraid, (with adjacent metathesis) coisercaid, (with long-distance metathesis) coisricid
  • Irish: coisric
  • Manx: casherick
  • Scottish Gaelic: coisrig

Further reading

• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “consecra”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
• Thurneysen, Rudolf (1940) [1909], D. A. Binchy and Osborn Bergin, transl., A Grammar of Old Irish, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, translation of Handbuch des Alt-Irischen (in German), →ISBN, § 927, page 576; reprinted 2017