caifé

See also: caife

Irish

Alternative forms

• caife

Etymology

Borrowed from Italian caffè or French café, from Ottoman Turkish قهوه (kahve), from Arabic قَهْوَة (qahwa, “coffee”). Doublet of caife.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkafʲeː/

Noun

caifé m (genitive singular caifé, nominative plural caiféanna)

1. café, cafeteria

Declension

Declension of caifé

Fourth declension

Bare forms Case Singular Plural Nominative caifé caiféanna Vocative a chaifé a chaiféanna Genitive caifé caiféanna Dative caifé caiféanna

Forms with the definite article Case Singular Plural Nominative an caifé na caiféanna Genitive an chaifé na gcaiféanna Dative leis an gcaifé don chaifé leis na caiféanna

Mutation

Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Eclipsis
caifé	chaifé	gcaifé
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Further reading

• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “caife”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
• “caifé”, in New English-Irish Dictionary, Foras na Gaeilge, 2013-2024