caifé

See also: caife

Irish

Alternative forms

• caife

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 case singular plural nominative caifé caiféanna vocative a chaifé a chaiféanna genitive caifé caiféanna dative caifé caiféanna forms with the definite article case 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