caipitiúil

Irish

Etymology

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Adjective

caipitiúil (genitive singular masculine caipitiúil, genitive singular feminine caipitiúla, plural caipitiúla, not comparable)

1. (business, economics, finance) capital

   Synonym: caipitil

Declension

Declension of caipitiúil

	singular		plural (m/f)
Positive	masculine	feminine	(strong noun)	(weak noun)
nominative	caipitiúil	chaipitiúil	caipitiúla; chaipitiúla2
vocative	chaipitiúil		caipitiúla
genitive		caipitiúla	caipitiúla	caipitiúil
dative	caipitiúil; chaipitiúil1	chaipitiúil	caipitiúla; chaipitiúla2
Comparative	(not comparable)
Superlative	(not comparable)

¹ When the preceding noun is lenited and governed by the definite article.
² When the preceding noun ends in a slender consonant.

Mutation

Mutated forms of caipitiúil

radical	lenition	eclipsis
caipitiúil	chaipitiúil	gcaipitiúil

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) “caipitiúil”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
• de Bhaldraithe, Tomás (1959) “caipitiúil”, in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm
• “caipitiúil”, in New English-Irish Dictionary, Foras na Gaeilge, 2013-2024