caffeine

English

Alternative forms

• caffein

Etymology

From French caféine, from café (“coffee”) or German Koffein, from Kaffee (“coffee”)

Pronunciation

• IPA: /ˈkæfiːn/ or /kæˈfiːn/

Noun

caffeine (uncountable)

1. An alkaloid, C₈H₁₀N₄O₂, found naturally in tea and coffee plants which acts as a mild stimulant of the central nervous system.

Translations

alkaloid found naturally in tea and coffee plants

• Arabic: كافيين (ar) (kafiyiin) m
• Asturian: cafeína (ast) f
• Catalan: cafeïna (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 咖啡因 (cmn) (kāfēiyīn)

• Czech: kofein (cs) m
• Danish: koffein (da) n and c
• Esperanto: kafeino (eo)
• Finnish: kofeiini (fi)
• French: caféine (fr) f
• Galician: cafeína (gl) f
• German: Koffein (de) n, Coffein (de) n
• Greek: καφεΐνη (el) (kafeḯni̱)
• Hebrew: קפאין (he)
• Hindi: कैफीन (hi) (kaiphīn)
• Hungarian: koffein (hu)
• Icelandic: koffín (is) n, (dated) kaffín (is) n

• Italian: caffeina (it) f
• Japanese: カフェイン (ja) (kafein)
• Korean: 카페인 (ko) (kapein)
• Macedonian: кофеин (mk) (kofeín) m
• Malagasy: kafeinina (mg), kafeina (mg)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: koffein (no) m and n

  Nynorsk: koffein (nn) m and n

• Portuguese: cafeína (pt) f
• Russian: кофеин (ru) (kofeín) m
• Scottish Gaelic: caifein (gd) m
• Serbo-Croatian: kofèīn (sh) m
• Spanish: cafeína (es) f
• Swedish: koffein (sv) n
• Thai: คาเฟอีน (th) (kaa-fay-een)
• Turkish: kafein (tr)
• Volapük: kafein (vo)

See also

• Caffeine on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

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Italian

Noun

caffeine f

1. Plural form of caffeina