croinic

Irish

Alternative forms

• croinicil

Etymology

From Old Irish croinic (“chronicle; history”), from Latin chronica, from Ancient Greek χρονικός (khronikós, “of or concerning time”), from χρόνος (khrónos, “time”).

Noun

croinic f (genitive singular croinice, nominative plural croinicí)

1. chronicle

   Synonyms: cuntas, leabhar oiris

Declension

Declension of croinic

Second declension

Bare forms Case Singular Plural Nominative croinic croinicí Vocative a chroinic a chroinicí Genitive croinice croinicí Dative croinic croinicí

Forms with the definite article Case Singular Plural Nominative an chroinic na croinicí Genitive na croinice na gcroinicí Dative leis an gcroinic don chroinic leis na croinicí

Derived terms

• croiniceacht f (“chronicling”)
• croiniceoir m, croinicí m (“chronicler”)
• croinicigh (“chronicle”, verb)
• Leabhair na gCroinicí m pl (“the Book of Chronicles”)

 

Mutation

Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Eclipsis
croinic	chroinic	gcroinic
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Further reading

• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “croinic”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
• “chronicle”, in New English-Irish Dictionary, Foras na Gaeilge, 2013–2024
• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “croinic”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language