caiféin

Irish

Etymology

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

Noun

caiféin f (genitive singular caiféine)

1. caffeine

Declension

Declension of caiféin

Second declension

Bare forms (no plural form of this noun) 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

Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Eclipsis
caiféin	chaiféin	gcaiféin
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Further reading

• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “caiféin”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
• “caffeine”, in New English-Irish Dictionary, Foras na Gaeilge, 2013–2024
• Entries containing “caiféin” in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm, 1959, by Tomás de Bhaldraithe.