cró

See also: cro and CRO

Irish

Etymology 1

Noun

cró m (genitive singular cró, nominative plural cróite)

eye, socket
bore
(photography) aperture
ring
enclosure; fold, pen
(small) outbuilding
mean dwelling, hovel
hollow; (topography) hollow, hole

Declension

Declension of cró

Fourth declension

Bare forms

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	cró	cróite
Vocative	a chró	a chróite
Genitive	cró	cróite
Dative	cró	cróite

Forms with the definite article

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	an cró	na cróite
Genitive	an chró	na gcróite
Dative	leis an gcró don chró	leis na cróite

Derived terms

Terms derived from cró

bolta cró (“eye-bolt”)
cró an chinn, cró na baithise (“junction of parietal bones”)
cró beaignite (“bayonet-joint socket”)
cró béar (“bear-garden”)
cró beithíoch (“byre, cattle-shed”)
cró bíomail (“pad, socket of brace”)
cró bolgáin (“bulb-holder”)
cró bolta (“bolt shoe”)
cró caorach (“sheep-fold, shieling”)
cró catha (“battle ring”)
cró cearc (“hen-house”)
Cró Choinn (“Conn's fold”) (name for Ireland)
cró Chríost (“the Christian fold”)
cró coinín (“rabbit-hutch”)

cró coinnleora (“socket of candlestick, sconce”)
cró comhla (“valve-holder”)
cró cúltreorach (“peep-hole”)
cró dornálaíochta (“ring”)
cró folaigh (“hiding-place”)
cró gunna (“bore of gun”)
cró lampa (“lamp-holder”)
cró madra (“dog-kennel”)
cró meáite (“weighing-enclosure”)
cró muc, cró muice (“piggery, pigsty”)
cró pacála (“packing box”)
cró pinn (“pen-holder”)
cró píopa (“bore of pipe”)

cró ribeach (“capillary bore”)
cró scuaibe (“brush-holder”)
cró sleá (“socket of spear”)
cró sluaiste (“socket of shovel”)
cró snáthaide (“lancet window; eye of needle”)
cró sorcais (“circus ring”)
cró stile (“still-house”)
cró tarbhchomhraic (“bull-ring”)
cró troda (“fighting ring”)
cró uimhriúil (“numerical aperture”)
crúca is cró (“hook and eye”)
cuir i gcró (“to house, pen”)
tomhas cró (“bore, calibre”)

Further reading

"cró" in Foclóir Gaeilge-Béarla, An Gúm, 1977, by Niall Ó Dónaill.
“cró” in Foclóir Gaeḋilge agus Béarla, Irish Texts Society, 1st ed., 1904, by Patrick S. Dinneen, page 196.
“cró” in Dictionary of the Irish Language, Royal Irish Academy, 1913–76.
Entries containing “cró” in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm, 1959, by Tomás de Bhaldraithe.
Entries containing “cró” in New English-Irish Dictionary by Foras na Gaeilge.

Etymology 2

Noun

cró m (genitive singular cró)

blood, gore

Declension

Declension of cró

Fourth declension

Bare forms (no plural of this noun)

Case	Singular
Nominative	cró
Vocative	a chró
Genitive	cró
Dative	cró

Forms with the definite article

Case	Singular
Nominative	an cró
Genitive	an chró
Dative	leis an gcró don chró

Derived terms

Terms derived from cró

cosair chró (“shambles”)

Mutation

Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Eclipsis
cró	chró	gcró
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Further reading

"cró" in Foclóir Gaeilge-Béarla, An Gúm, 1977, by Niall Ó Dónaill.
“cró” in Foclóir Gaeḋilge agus Béarla, Irish Texts Society, 1st ed., 1904, by Patrick S. Dinneen, page 197.
“cró” in Dictionary of the Irish Language, Royal Irish Academy, 1913–76.
Entries containing “cró” in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm, 1959, by Tomás de Bhaldraithe.
Entries containing “cró” in New English-Irish Dictionary by Foras na Gaeilge.

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