"cigire" meaning in Irish

See cigire in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Noun

IPA: /ˈcɪɟɪɾʲə/
Etymology: Coined by Tadhg Ó Neachtain (c. 1670 – c. 1752) based on a misreading of cighim (itself a rare and now obsolete alternative spelling of cím (“I see”)) as cigim, expanded by the suffix -ire. Began to see actual use in Irish at the beginning of the 20th century. Etymology templates: {{af|ga|-aire|alt1=-ire}} -ire Head templates: {{head|ga|noun|genitive singular|cigire|||||||nominative plural|cigirí|||||cat2=|f1request=1|f4request=1|g=m|g2=|g3=|head=}} cigire m (genitive singular cigire, nominative plural cigirí), {{ga-noun|m|~|cigirí}} cigire m (genitive singular cigire, nominative plural cigirí) Inflection templates: {{ga-decl-m4|c|igire|igirí}}, {{ga-mut}} Forms: cigire [genitive, singular], cigirí [nominative, plural], no-table-tags [table-tags], cigire [indefinite, nominative, singular], cigirí [indefinite, nominative, plural], a chigire [indefinite, singular, vocative], a chigirí [indefinite, plural, vocative], cigire [genitive, indefinite, singular], cigirí [genitive, indefinite, plural], cigire [dative, indefinite, singular], cigirí [dative, indefinite, plural], no-table-tags [table-tags], an cigire [definite, nominative, singular], na cigirí [definite, nominative, plural], an chigire [definite, genitive, singular], na gcigirí [definite, genitive, plural], leis an gcigire [dative, definite, singular], don chigire [dative, definite, singular], leis na cigirí [dative, definite, plural], no-table-tags [table-tags], cigire [mutation, mutation-radical], chigire [lenition, mutation], gcigire [eclipsis, mutation]
  1. inspector Tags: masculine Categories (topical): Occupations
    Sense id: en-cigire-ga-noun-mP5EIlUD Disambiguation of Occupations: 73 27
  2. (derogatory) gay man, faggot, poof (shortened from cigire tóna (literally “arse inspector”)) Tags: derogatory, masculine Categories (topical): LGBT
    Sense id: en-cigire-ga-noun--VaeDThe Disambiguation of LGBT: 39 61 Categories (other): Irish entries with incorrect language header, Irish ghost words, Irish terms suffixed with -aire Disambiguation of Irish entries with incorrect language header: 40 60 Disambiguation of Irish ghost words: 21 79 Disambiguation of Irish terms suffixed with -aire: 33 67
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Derived forms: banchigire, cigire tóna, cigireacht

Inflected forms

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      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "word": "banchigire"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "word": "cigire tóna"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "word": "cigireacht"
    }
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    {
      "form": "cigire",
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        "genitive",
        "singular"
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    },
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      "form": "cigirí",
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        "nominative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "no-table-tags",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "table-tags"
      ]
    },
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      "form": "ga-decl-m4",
      "source": "declension",
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      ]
    },
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      "form": "cigire",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "indefinite",
        "nominative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "cigirí",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "indefinite",
        "nominative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "a chigire",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "indefinite",
        "singular",
        "vocative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "a chigirí",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "indefinite",
        "plural",
        "vocative"
      ]
    },
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        "genitive",
        "indefinite",
        "singular"
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    {
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      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
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        "indefinite",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
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        "indefinite",
        "singular"
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      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "dative",
        "indefinite",
        "plural"
      ]
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      "source": "declension",
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        "nominative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "na cigirí",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "definite",
        "nominative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
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      "form": "an chigire",
      "source": "declension",
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        "genitive",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "na gcigirí",
      "source": "declension",
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        "definite",
        "genitive",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
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      "form": "leis an gcigire",
      "source": "declension",
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        "dative",
        "definite",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "don chigire",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "dative",
        "definite",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
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      "form": "leis na cigirí",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "dative",
        "definite",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
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      "form": "no-table-tags",
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      "form": "chigire",
      "source": "mutation",
      "tags": [
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        "mutation"
      ]
    },
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      "form": "gcigire",
      "source": "mutation",
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            "Human activity",
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            "Human behaviour",
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            "Human",
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            "Reproduction",
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            "Life",
            "Nature"
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          "faggot"
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          "poof"
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          "cigire tóna",
          "cigire tóna#Irish"
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    "Tadhg Ó Neachtain",
    "Tomás de Bhaldraithe"
  ],
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        "plural"
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      "source": "declension",
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        "singular"
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        "definite",
        "singular"
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    "Tadhg Ó Neachtain",
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If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.