stuaic

Irish

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /sˠt̪ˠuəc/

Noun

stuaic f (genitive singular stuaice, nominative plural stuaiceanna)

  1. huff (condition of anger, annoyance etc.), huffiness, sulk, (fit of) pique, pet (fit of petulance)
    Chuir a cuid cainte stuaic orm.
    I took offense at what she said.
    (literally, “Her talk put a huff on me.”)
  2. peak (point, sharp end)
  3. (geology) pinnacle (craggy rock)
  4. (architecture) pinnacle (upright member), spire
    stuaic eaglaise ― church spire
  5. (geometry) vertex (corner of a polygon or polyhedron)
  6. hair on the crown of the head
  7. inclination of the head

Declension

Declension of stuaic (second declension)
bare forms
singular plural
nominative stuaic stuaiceanna
vocative a stuaic a stuaiceanna
genitive stuaice stuaiceanna
dative stuaic stuaiceanna
forms with the definite article
singular plural
nominative an stuaic na stuaiceanna
genitive na stuaice na stuaiceanna
dative leis an stuaic
don stuaic 		leis na stuaiceanna

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Further reading

  • “stuaic”, in Historical Irish Corpus, 1600–1926, Royal Irish Academy
  • Dinneen, Patrick S. (1904), “stuaic”, in Foclóir Gaeḋilge agus Béarla, 1st edition, Dublin: Irish Texts Society, page 698
  • Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977), “stuaic”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
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