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acantas

acantas

Irish

Noun

acantas m ‎(genitive singular acantais, nominative plural acantais)

acanthus (plant)

Declension

Declension of acantas

First declension

Bare forms:

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	acantas	acantais
Vocative	a acantais	a acantasa
Genitive	acantais	acantas
Dative	acantas	acantais

Forms with the definite article:

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	an t-acantas	na hacantais
Genitive	an acantais	na n-acantas
Dative	leis an acantas don acantas	leis na hacantais

Derived terms

duille acantais ‎(“acanthus”) (architectural ornament)

Related terms

acanta- ‎(“acantho-”)

Mutation

Irish mutation
Radical	Eclipsis	with h-prothesis	with t-prothesis
acantas	n-acantas	hacantas	t-acantas
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

References

"acantas" in Foclóir Gaeilge-Béarla, An Gúm, 1977, by Niall Ó Dónaill.