caiféin

Irish

Etymology

From French caféine, from café (“coffee”).

Noun

caiféin f (genitive singular caiféine)

1. caffeine

Declension

Declension of caiféin (second declension, no plural)

bare forms case singular nominative caiféin vocative a chaiféin genitive caiféine dative caiféin forms with the definite article case singular nominative an chaiféin genitive na caiféine dative leis an gcaiféin don chaiféin

Related terms

• caife m (“coffee”)

Mutation

Mutated forms of caiféin

radical	lenition	eclipsis
caiféin	chaiféin	gcaiféin

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