cáca

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

Irish

Etymology

From Middle Irish cáca, from Old Norse kaka (“cake”), from Proto-Germanic *kakǭ (“cake”), of unclear origin but possibly from Proto-Indo-European *gog- (“ball-shaped object”).

Pronunciation

• (Munster, Connacht) IPA^(key): [ˈkɑːkə]
• (Ulster) IPA^(key): [ˈkæːkə]

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”) (for storing cake)
• cáca bacstaí m (“boxty”)
• cáca baile m (“homemade cake”)
• cáca bainise m (“bride-cake, wedding-cake”)
• cáca beag m (“pastry”)
• cáca biotáille m (“tipsy-cake”)
• cáca boise m (“(small) cake”)
• cáca caife m (“coffee cake”)
• cáca cainéil m (“cinnamon cake”)
• cáca cairéid m (“carrot cake”)
• cáca cearbhais m (“seed-cake”)
• cáca cróch m (“saffron cake”)
• cáca cuiríní m (“currant cake”)
• cáca éisc m (“fishcake”)
• cáca gridille m (“griddle-cake”)
• cáca lá breithe m (“birthday cake”)
• cáca meala m (“honey-cake”)
• cáca milis m (“cake (sweet dessert)”)
• cáca minchoirce m (“(oat-)cake”)
• 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 seacláide m (“chocolate cake”)
• cáca sinséir m (“ginger cake”)
• cáca síol cotúin m (“cotton-cake”)
• cáca síol rois m (“linseed-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 mixture”)
• stán cáca m (“cake tin”) (baking 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
• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “cáca”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
• de Bhaldraithe, Tomás (1959) “cáca”, in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm
• “cáca”, in New English-Irish Dictionary, Foras na Gaeilge, 2013-2024