caipitleachas

Irish

Etymology

From caipitleach (“capitalist”, adjective) +‎ -as (abstract nominal suffix).

Noun

caipitleachas m (genitive singular caipitleachais)

1. (economics, politics) capitalism

Declension

Declension of caipitleachas (first declension, no plural)

bare forms case singular nominative caipitleachas vocative a chaipitleachais genitive caipitleachais dative caipitleachas forms with the definite article case singular nominative an caipitleachas genitive an chaipitleachais dative leis an gcaipitleachas don chaipitleachas

Synonyms

• rachmasaíocht

Derived terms

• caipitleachas stáit (“state capitalism”)

Mutation

Mutated forms of caipitleachas

radical	lenition	eclipsis
caipitleachas	chaipitleachas	gcaipitleachas

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) “caipitleachas”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
• “capitalism”, in New English-Irish Dictionary, Foras na Gaeilge, 2013–2025