grúpa

See also: grupa, grupą, and grupă

Icelandic

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkruːpa/

Noun

grúpa f (genitive singular grúpu, nominative plural grúpur)

1. (algebra, group theory) a group

Declension

Declension of grúpa (feminine)

	singular		plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	grúpa	grúpan	grúpur	grúpurnar
accusative	grúpu	grúpuna	grúpur	grúpurnar
dative	grúpu	grúpunni	grúpum	grúpunum
genitive	grúpu	grúpunnar	grúpna	grúpnanna

Derived terms

• grúpufræði
• hálfgrúpa
• hlutgrúpa

Irish

Etymology

Borrowed from French groupe (“cluster, group”), from Italian gruppo, groppo (“a knot, heap, group, bag (of money)”), from Vulgar Latin *cruppo, from Proto-Germanic *kruppaz (“lump, round mass, body, crop”), from Proto-Indo-European *grewb- (“to crumple, bend, crawl”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɡɾˠuːpˠə/

Noun

grúpa m (genitive singular grúpa, nominative plural grúpaí)

1. group

Declension

Declension of grúpa (fourth declension)

bare forms singular plural nominative grúpa grúpaí vocative a ghrúpa a ghrúpaí genitive grúpa grúpaí dative grúpa grúpaí forms with the definite article singular plural nominative an grúpa na grúpaí genitive an ghrúpa na ngrúpaí dative leis an ngrúpa don ghrúpa leis na grúpaí

Derived terms

• aimínghrúpa (“amino group”)
• foghrúpa (“subgroup”)
• fuilghrúpa (“blood-group”)
• grúp- (“group-”)
• grúpa eitileach (“ethyl group”)
• grúpa gineadóireachta (“generating set”)
• grúpa stiúrtha (“steering group”)
• grúpáil (“group”, verb)
• hipearghrúpa (“hypergroup”)

Mutation

Mutated forms of grúpa

radical	lenition	eclipsis
grúpa	ghrúpa	ngrúpa

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

Further reading

• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “grúpa”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN