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caoine

caoine

Irish

Noun

caoine f ‎(genitive singular caoine)

smoothness, gentleness

Declension

Declension of caoine

Fourth declension

Bare forms (no plural of this noun)

Case	Singular
Nominative	caoine
Vocative	a chaoine
Genitive	caoine
Dative	caoine

Forms with the definite article

Case	Singular
Nominative	an chaoine
Genitive	na caoine
Dative	leis an gcaoine don chaoine

Synonyms

caoineas

Derived terms

eascaoine ‎(“ungentleness, roughness”)

Adjective

caoine

inflection of caoin ‎(“smooth, polished; kind, gentle”):
1. genitive feminine singular
2. nominative and vocative and dative and strong genitive plural
comparative degree of caoin

Mutation

Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Eclipsis
caoine	chaoine	gcaoine
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

References

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

Scottish Gaelic

Noun

caoine f

genitive singular of caoin