caifé

See also: caife

Irish

Alternative forms

Etymology

Borrowed from Italian caffè or French café, from Ottoman Turkish قهوه (kahve), from Arabic قَهْوَة (qahwa, “coffee”). Doublet of caife.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈkafʲeː/

Noun

caifé m (genitive singular caifé, nominative plural caiféanna)

  1. café, cafeteria

Declension

Declension of caifé (fourth declension)
bare forms
singular plural
nominative caifé caiféanna
vocative a chaifé a chaiféanna
genitive caifé caiféanna
dative caifé caiféanna
forms with the definite article
singular plural
nominative an caifé na caiféanna
genitive an chaifé na gcaiféanna
dative leis an gcaifé
don chaifé 		leis na caiféanna

Mutation

Mutated forms of caifé
radical lenition eclipsis
caifé chaifé gcaifé

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) “caife”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
  • “caifé”, in New English-Irish Dictionary, Foras na Gaeilge, 2013–2025
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