cáca

See also: caca, Caca, caça, caçà, căca, and ćaća

Irish

Etymology

From Middle English cake, from Old Norse kaka (“cake”), from Proto-Germanic *kakǭ (“cake”), of unclear origin.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkɑːkə/

Noun

cáca m (genitive singular cáca, nominative plural cácaí)

1. cake (small mass of baked dough; thin wafer-shaped mass of fried batter)

   Synonym: císte

Declension

Declension of cáca (fourth declension)

bare forms case singular plural nominative cáca cácaí vocative a cháca a chácaí genitive cáca cácaí dative cáca cácaí forms with the definite article case singular plural nominative an cáca na cácaí genitive an cháca na gcácaí dative leis an gcáca don cháca leis na cácaí

Derived terms

• bosca an cháca m (“cake tin”)
• cáca bacstaí m (“boxty”)
• cáca baile m (“homemade cake”)
• cáca bainise m (“wedding cake”)
• cáca beag m (“pastry”)
• cáca biotáille m (“tipsy cake”)
• cáca boise m (“(small) cake”)
• cáca caife m (“coffee cake”)
• cáca cairéid m (“carrot cake”)
• cáca cearbhais m (“seedcake”)
• cáca éisc m (“fishcake”)
• cáca gridille m (“griddlecake”)
• cáca lá breithe m (“birthday cake”)
• cáca meala m (“honey cake”)
• cáca milis m (“cake (sweet dessert)”)
• cáca minchoirce m (“oatcake”)
• cáca ola m (“oil cake”)
• cáca portáin m (“crab cake”)
• cáca prátaí m (“potato cake”)
• cáca reoánta m (“fancy cake”)
• cáca rísíní m (“plum cake”)
• cáca spúinse m (“sponge cake”)
• cáca srathach m (“layer cake”)
• cáca tae m (“tea-cake”)
• cáca torthaí m (“fruit cake”)
• cáca úll m (“apple-tart”)
• meascán cáca m (“cake mix”)
• stán cáca m (“cake tin”)

Mutation

Mutated forms of cáca

radical	lenition	eclipsis
cáca	cháca	gcáca

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) “cáca”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
• de Bhaldraithe, Tomás (1959) “cáca”, in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm
• “cáca”, in New English-Irish Dictionary, Foras na Gaeilge, 2013-2025