pointeáilte

Irish

Alternative forms

  • poinnteálta[1]

Pronunciation

Participle

pointeáilte

  1. past participle of pointeáil

Adjective

pointeáilte

  1. clean-cut, dapper, fastidious (as in painstaking), neat (of person), smart, spruce, tidy
  2. particular, punctilious
  3. punctual (prompt)
    Synonyms: féichiúnta, poncúil, spriocúil
  4. precise (exact, accurate; of person)
    Synonyms: cruinn, beacht
  5. exact (careful with details)
  6. delicate (especially of sports movement etc)

Declension

Declension of pointeáilte
Positive singular plural
masculine feminine strong noun weak noun
nominative pointeáilte phointeáilte pointeáilte;
phointeáilte2
vocative phointeáilte pointeáilte
genitive pointeáilte pointeáilte pointeáilte
dative pointeáilte;
phointeáilte1 		phointeáilte pointeáilte;
phointeáilte2
Comparative níos pointeáilte
Superlative is pointeáilte

1 When the preceding noun is lenited and governed by the definite article.
2 When the preceding noun ends in a slender consonant.

Mutation

Mutated forms of pointeáilte
radical lenition eclipsis
pointeáilte phointeáilte bpointeáilte

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Modern Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

References

  1. ^ Dinneen, Patrick S. (1927) “poinnteálta”, in Foclóir Gaeḋilge agus Béarla, 2nd edition, Dublin: Irish Texts Society, page 852; reprinted with additions 1996, →ISBN

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