Old Irish

Alternative forms

• accobor
• accobur
• accubur

Noun

accobar n ‎(genitive accobair)

1. verbal noun of ad·cobra
2. desire, wish
   • 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. 16^c16

     a n-accobor glosses animus voluntatis in 2 Corinthians 8:11

   • c. 845, St. Gall Glosses on Priscian, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1975, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. II, pp. 49–224, Sg. 62^b4

     accobor glosses cupido

3. covetousness, greed
   • 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. 11^b5

     issí tra temptatio homana as·rubart túas freccor céil ídol et accobar á túare

     this, then, is the temptatio humana which he had mentioned above, service of idols and desire of their food

4. carnal desire, lust
   • 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. 8^c8

     dob·tromma a n-accobor collnide beos

     the carnal desire still weighs you down

Inflection

Mutation

References

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