caoine

Irish

Etymology

From Old Irish caíne (“gentleness, pleasantness, beauty”), from caín (“fine, good, fair, beautiful; soft, smooth; soft, gentle; fine, clement”). By surface analysis, caoin +‎ -e.

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /ˈkiːnʲə/

Noun

caoine f (genitive singular caoine)

  1. 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

Derived terms

Adjective

caoine

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

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.

Further reading

Scottish Gaelic

Noun

caoine f

  1. genitive singular of caoin
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