cáinte

See also: cainte

Irish

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

From Old Irish cáinte (“satirist, lampooner”), from cáinid (“reviles, rails at, reproaches”).

Noun

cáinte m (genitive singular cáinte, nominative plural cáintí)

  1. (literary) satirist, lampooner
Declension
Declension of cáinte

Fourth declension

Bare forms

Case Singular Plural
Nominative cáinte cáintí
Vocative a cháinte a cháintí
Genitive cáinte cáintí
Dative cáinte cáintí

Forms with the definite article

Case Singular Plural
Nominative an cáinte na cáintí
Genitive an cháinte na gcáintí
Dative leis an gcáinte

don cháinte

 leis na cáintí
Derived terms

Etymology 2

Participle

cáinte

  1. past participle of cáin

Mutation
Irish mutation
Radical Lenition Eclipsis
cáinte cháinte gcáinte
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.
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