cathair

• IPA^(key): /ˈkahɪɾʲ/
• (Cois Fharraige) IPA^(key): /kaːɾʲ/

From Old Irish cathair, from Proto-Celtic *katrixs (“fortification”).

cathair f (genitive singular cathrach or caithreach, nominative plural cathracha)

1. city
2. (historical) enclosed church establishment; monastic city
3. (archaeology) circular stone fort, a ringfort
4. dwelling(-place); bed, lair

• Alternative genitive singular: caithreach

cathair f (genitive singular caithre or caithreach)

1. Alternative form of caithir (“down, pubic hair”)

• Alternative genitive singular: caithreach

• "cathair" in Foclóir Gaeilge-Béarla, An Gúm, 1977, by Niall Ó Dónaill.
• “1 cathair” in Dictionary of the Irish Language, Royal Irish Academy, 1913–76.
• “caṫair” in Foclóir Gaeḋilge agus Béarla, Irish Texts Society, 2nd ed., 1927, by Patrick S. Dinneen.
• Entries containing “cathair” in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm, 1959, by Tomás de Bhaldraithe.
• Entries containing “cathair” in New English-Irish Dictionary by Foras na Gaeilge.

• caithir, cathir

From Proto-Celtic *katrixs (“fortification”); possibly cognate with Old English hēaþor (“enclosure, prison”) or Serbo-Croatian kȍtar (“administrative unit, province”).[1]

• IPA^(key): /ˈkaθirʲ/

cathair f (genitive cathrach, nominative plural cathraig)

1. stone enclosure, fortress, castle; dwelling
2. monastic settlement, enclosure; monastery, convent
   • c. 800, Broccán’s Hymn, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. II, p. 328, ll. 9–10:

     Nī bo fri óigthea acher   cāinbói fri lobru trúagu:
     for maig arutacht cathir   dollaid rosnāde slúagu.

     She was not harsh to guests: gentle was she to the wretched sick:
     on a plain she built a convent: may it protect hosts into the Kingdom!

3. fortified city, city
   • c. 800, Würzburg Glosses on the Pauline Epistles, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 499–712, Wb. 13b1:

     (do·adb)adar in taidbsiu hi siu tra do(naib) coic cetaib […] ro·bói isin chaithir isind aimsir sin

     this appearance, then, is manifested to the five hundred […] that was in the city at that time

• “1 cathair” in Dictionary of the Irish Language, Royal Irish Academy, 1913–76.

From Old Irish cathaír (“chair”), from Latin cathēdra, from Ancient Greek καθέδρα (kathédra). Cognate with Irish cathaoir.

cathair f (genitive singular cathrach, plural cathraichean)

1. chair, seat, bench, throne

From Old Irish cathair.

cathair f (genitive singular cathrach, plural cathraichean)

1. town, city

• catharra (“civil; civic, public”, adjective)

cathair f (genitive singular cathrach, plural cathraichean)

1. gig (two wheeled horse drawn carriage)
2. bed (of any garden stuff)
3. stock, colewort, cabbage
4. plot (of land)
5. (obsolete) guard, sentinel, warder

• Faclair Gàidhlig Dwelly Air Loidhne, Dwelly, Edward (1911), Faclair Gàidhlig gu Beurla le Dealbhan/The Illustrated [Scottish] Gaelic-English Dictionary (10th ed.), Edinburgh: Birlinn Limited, →ISBN
• “cathaír” in Dictionary of the Irish Language, Royal Irish Academy, 1913–76.
• “1 cathair” in Dictionary of the Irish Language, Royal Irish Academy, 1913–76.