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sorcas

sorcas

See also: sorĉas

Irish

Alternative forms

siorcas

Noun

sorcas m ‎(genitive singular sorcais, nominative plural sorcais)

(travelling) circus

Declension

Declension of sorcas

First declension

Bare forms:

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	sorcas	sorcais
Vocative	a shorcais	a shorcasa
Genitive	sorcais	sorcas
Dative	sorcas	sorcais

Forms with the definite article:

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	an sorcas	na sorcais
Genitive	an tsorcais	na sorcas
Dative	leis an sorcas don sorcas	leis na sorcais

Derived terms

Terms derived from sorcas

cró sorcais, fáinne sorcais ‎(“circus ring”)
fear sorcais ‎(“circus clown; funny fellow, gay lad”)

lá sorcais ‎(“a day at the circus; a day of fun and sport”)
máistir sorcais ‎(“ring-master”)

sorcas Rómhánach ‎(“Roman circus”)

Mutation

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

References

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