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sagart

sagart

Irish

Noun

sagart m ‎(genitive singular sagairt, nominative plural sagairt)

priest

Declension

Declension of sagart

First declension

Bare forms:

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	sagart	sagairt
Vocative	a shagairt	a shagarta
Genitive	sagairt	sagart
Dative	sagart	sagairt

Forms with the definite article:

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	an sagart	na sagairt
Genitive	an tsagairt	na sagart
Dative	leis an sagart don sagart	leis na sagairt

Derived terms

bansagart ‎(“priestess”)
sagartach, sagartúil ‎(“priestly, sacerdotal”)

Mutation

Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Eclipsis
sagart	shagart after an, tsagart	unchanged
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

References

"sagart" in Foclóir Gaeilge-Béarla, An Gúm, 1977, by Niall Ó Dónaill.
“sacart” in Dictionary of the Irish Language, Royal Irish Academy, 1913–76.

Scottish Gaelic

Etymology

From Old Irish sacart, from Latin sacerdōs.

Noun

sagart m ‎(genitive singular sagairt, plural sagartan or sagairtean)

(Christianity) chaplain, priest
(Lewis) ram with one of its testicles wanting

References

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 0 901771 92 9
“sacart” in Dictionary of the Irish Language, Royal Irish Academy, 1913–76.