cacamas

See also: căca-m-aș

Irish

Etymology

From cac.

Noun

cacamas m (genitive singular cacamais)

1. dross, refuse
2. (metallurgy) scobs, scum
3. Vile, worthless thing.
4. (colloquial) bullshit, nonsense
5. vainglory

Declension

Declension of cacamas

First declension

Bare forms (no plural of this noun) Case Singular Nominative cacamas Vocative a chacamais Genitive cacamais Dative cacamas

Forms with the definite article: Case Singular Nominative an cacamas Genitive an chacamais Dative leis an gcacamas don chacamas

Mutation

Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Eclipsis
cacamas	chacamas	gcacamas
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Further reading

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