caf
English edit
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- (café, cafeteria): caff
Etymology edit
Clippings.
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Noun edit
caf (countable and uncountable, plural cafs)
- (countable, informal) A café.
- 2008, Carlos Frías, Take Me with You: A Memoir:
- Fourth on the list of the businesses my father and his brothers had owned was a caf on the corner of San Ignacio and Lamparilla in Old Havana.
- (countable, informal) A cafeteria.
- 2005, Amy Davis, Adam Burns, Michigan State University, page 49:
- There are plenty of restaurants to choose from when you're sick of the ol’ caf food.
- 2009, Lili St. Crow, Betrayals:
- Locked, empty classrooms on either side, other halls opening up to go down to the caf, two janitors' closets. Janitors' closets. Great. One was locked.
- 2010, Cheryl Denise Bannerman, Black Child to Black Woman: A Journey of Tremendous Proportions, page 38:
- One thing they shun is eating in the caf. alone. If you were not with a clique, you are strange. Why? I don't know. I heard the meat is processed and all the food is made by mixing powder with a measured amount of water.
- (countable, uncountable) A caffeinated coffee.
- Coordinate term: decaf
- 2007, Karen Gurwitz, Jen Hoy, The Well-Rounded Pregnancy Cookbook: Give Your Baby a Healthy Start with 100 Recipes That Adapt to Fit How You Feel, New York, NY: Crown Publishing Group, →ISBN, page 31:
- If you decide to cut coffee out completely, consider going down half a cup a day, week by week, if your withdrawal symptoms—headaches and irritability—are severe. Or, mix decaf with caf, increasing the quantity of decaf until you are down to all decaf.
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Middle English edit
Noun edit
caf
- Alternative form of chaf
Old English edit
Etymology edit
From Proto-Germanic *kaibaz (“strong, lively, brave”).
Pronunciation edit
Adjective edit
cāf
Declension edit
Declension of cāf — Strong
Singular | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter |
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Nominative | cāf | cāf | cāf |
Accusative | cāfne | cāfe | cāf |
Genitive | cāfes | cāfre | cāfes |
Dative | cāfum | cāfre | cāfum |
Instrumental | cāfe | cāfre | cāfe |
Plural | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter |
Nominative | cāfe | cāfa, cāfe | cāf |
Accusative | cāfe | cāfa, cāfe | cāf |
Genitive | cāfra | cāfra | cāfra |
Dative | cāfum | cāfum | cāfum |
Instrumental | cāfum | cāfum | cāfum |
Declension of cāf — Weak
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Noun edit
caf (nominative plural cafs)
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Welsh edit
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- ca (colloquial)
Pronunciation edit
- (North Wales) (standard) IPA(key): /kaːv/
- (North Wales) (colloquial) IPA(key): /kaː/
- (South Wales) (standard) (colloquial) IPA(key): /kaːv/
- (South Wales) (colloquial) IPA(key): /kaː/
- Rhymes: -aːv
Verb edit
caf
Mutation edit
Welsh mutation | |||
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radical | soft | nasal | aspirate |
caf | gaf | nghaf | chaf |
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. |