cache

See also: Cache, caché, and cachê

English

Etymology 1

From French cache (as used by French Canadian trappers to mean “hiding place for stores”), from the verb cacher (“to hide”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) enPR: kăsh, IPA^(key): /kæʃ/;
• (US, General Australian) enPR: kăsh, kāsh, IPA^(key): /kæʃ/, /keɪʃ/; (proscribed) /kæˈʃeɪ/, /ˈkæʃ.eɪ/

• Audio (UK):

  (file)

• Audio (US):

  (file)

• Audio (Canada):

  (file)

• Audio (US, child voice):

  (file)

• Rhymes: -æʃ
• Rhymes: -eɪʃ
• Homophones: cash, cachet (for the proscribed pronunciation)
• (General Australian) IPA^(key): /kæɪʃ/

• Audio (General Australian):

  (file)

• Rhymes: -eɪʃ

Noun

cache (plural caches)

1. A store, protected or hidden in some way, of things that may be required in the future, such that they can be retrieved rapidly.

   Members of the 29-man Discovery team laid down food caches to allow the polar team to travel light, hopping from food cache to food cache on their return journey.

   • 1990, Chris Lowe, Neil Tennant, “Being Boring”, performed by Pet Shop Boys:

     I came across a cache of old photos / And invitations to teenage parties

2. (computing) A fast temporary storage where recently or frequently used information is stored to avoid having to reload it from a slower storage medium.
3. (geocaching) A container containing treasure in a global treasure-hunt game.

Usage notes

• Not to be confused with cachet.

Hyponyms

• bear cache
• browser cache
• food cache
• template cache
• webcache

Derived terms

• cacheability
• cacheable
• cache buster
• Cache County
• cache language model
• cacheless
• cache-oblivious
• cache stampede
• femtocache
• geocache
• multicache
• subcache
• Tête Jaune Cache
• uncache

Descendants

• → Czech: keš
• → Danish: cache
• → German: Cache
• → Italian: cache
• → Norwegian:
  • Norwegian Bokmål: cache
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: cache
• → Portuguese: cache
• → Russian: кэш (kɛš)
• → Serbo-Croatian: kȅš, ке̏ш
• → Spanish: caché

Translations

store

• Bashkir: запас (zapas), һаҡлам (haqlam)
• Bulgarian: запас (bg) m (zapas)
• Estonian: peidik (et)
• Finnish: varasto (fi), kätkö (fi) (hidden store)
• Italian: nascondiglio (it) m, ripostiglio (it) m
• Latvian: please add this translation if you can
• Lithuanian: please add this translation if you can
• Maori: whakaputunga
• Polish: schowek (pl) m inan
• Portuguese: esconderijo (pt) m
• Russian: запа́с (ru) m (zapás), тайни́к (ru) m (tajník) (hidden store), схрон (ru) m (sxron) (arms cache)
• Swedish: gömma (sv) c

computing: fast temporary storage for data

• Afrikaans: cache sg
• Azerbaijani: keş
• Bashkir: кэш (keş)
• Bulgarian: кеш m (keš)
• Catalan: memòria cau f, cache m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 緩存 / 缓存 (huǎncún), 快取 (zh) (kuàiqǔ) (chiefly Taiwan)

• Czech: mezipaměť f, vyrovnávací paměť f
• Danish: cache c
• Esperanto: kaŝmemoro
• Estonian: vahemälu
• Finnish: välimuisti (fi)
• French: cache (fr) m, mémoire cache (fr) f
• German: Cache (de) m, Zwischenspeicher m
• Greek: κρυφή μνήμη (el) f (kryfí mními)
• Hebrew: מַטְמוֹן (he) m (matmón)
• Hungarian: gyorsítótár (hu), gyorstár, átmeneti tár, átmeneti tároló, gyorstároló
• Icelandic: skyndiminni (is) n
• Indonesian: singgahan (id), khazanah (id), tembolok (id)
• Italian: memoria cache f, cache (it) f
• Japanese: キャッシュ (ja) (kyasshu)
• Kapampangan: talasaglisikapan
• Korean: 캐시 (kaesi)
• Latvian: please add this translation if you can
• Lithuanian: podėlis m, talpykla f
• Maori: keteroki
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: cache (no) m, hurtigminne (no) n, mellomlager (no) n

  Nynorsk: cache (nn) m, hurtigminne (nn) n, mellomlager (nn) n

• Polish: pamięć podręczna f, bufor (pl) m, cache (pl) m
• Portuguese: cache (pt) m, memória cache f
• Romanian: cache n du (technichal)
• Russian: кэш (ru) m (kɛš)
• Slovak: vyrovnávacia pamäť f, medzipamäť f
• Spanish: memoria caché f, caché (es) f
• Swedish: cacheminne (sv) n, cache (sv) c
• Turkish: önbellek (tr)
• Vietnamese: bộ nhớ đệm, vùng nhớ đệm

geocaching: hidden container

• Finnish: kätkö (fi), geokätkö (fi)
• French: cache (fr) f
• German: Geocache m, Cache (de) m
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: cache (no) m

  Nynorsk: cache m

• Swedish: gömma (sv) c, skattgömma (sv) c

Verb

cache (third-person singular simple present caches, present participle caching, simple past and past participle cached)

1. (transitive) To place in a cache.
   • 1922, A. M. Chisholm, A Thousand a Plate:

     And here the adventurers went ashore, unloaded, turned their canoe bottom up in the shelter of thick brush, and cached their supplies temporarily on a pole scaffold, out of reach of prowling depredators.

2. (transitive, computing) To store data in a cache.
   • 2008, Jacob Kaplan-Moss, Adrian Holovaty, The Definitive Guide to Django, Apress, →ISBN, page 203:

     In this case, it would not be ideal to use the full-page caching that the per-site or per-view cache strategies offer, because you wouldn't want to cache the entire result (since some of the data changes often), but you'd still want to cache the results that rarely change.

3. (Can we verify⁽⁺⁾ this sense?) to store up, stockpile

Derived terms

• precache
• recache

Translations

to place in a cache

• Bulgarian: склади́рам (bg) impf (skladíram)
• Finnish: varastoida (fi), piilottaa (fi), kätkeä (fi)
• Ido: cel-eyo
• Swedish: lagra (sv) (i cacheminne); gömma (sv), stoppa undan

to store data in a cache

• Bulgarian: кеши́рам impf (kešíram)
• German: cachen (de)
• Hungarian: gyorsítótáraz
• Portuguese: armazenar em cache
• Spanish: cachear (es)

Related terms

• coagulate
• cogent
• squat

References

• JP 1-02 Department of Defense Dictionary of Military and Associated Terms

Etymology 2

Noun

cache (plural caches)

1. Misspelling of cachet.
   • 2014, Nils Bubandt, Democracy, Corruption and the Politics of Spirits in Contemporary Indonesia‎^[1]:

     The prophecies are an attempt to explore the mystery of democracy, to divine its origin in order to capitalize on its political cache, but also to diagnose the cause of its contemporary malaise.

See also

• cache-sexe

Anagrams

• Chace, chace

Danish

Etymology

From English cache.

Noun

cache c (singular definite cachen, plural indefinite cacher)

1. (computing) cache

Declension

Declension of cache

common gender	singular		plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	cache	cachen	cacher	cacherne
genitive	caches	cachens	cachers	cachernes

Synonyms

• buffer
• cachehukommelse

Derived terms

• cachehukommelse
• cachememory

Further reading

• “cache” in Den Danske Ordbog

French

Etymology

From cacher. In the sense "cover, mask", a clipping of cache-œil, cache-nez, etc.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kaʃ/

• Audio (Paris):

  (file)

• Audio:

  (file)

Noun

cache f (plural caches)

1. cache, hiding place for later retrieval

Derived terms

• cachette

Descendants

• → English: cache (see there for further descendants)

Noun

cache m (plural caches)

1. cover, mask
2. (computing) cache

Verb

cache

1. inflection of cacher:
   1. first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
   2. second-person singular imperative

Further reading

• “cache”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Galician

Etymology 1

Unknown. Compare gache.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈkɑt͡ʃɪ]

Interjection

cache!

1. shoo! (said to pigs)

   Synonyms: gache, isca, xo

References

• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “cache”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “cache”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “cache”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

Etymology 2

Verb

cache

1. inflection of cachar:
   1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
   2. third-person singular imperative

German

Verb

cache

1. inflection of cachen:
   1. first-person singular present
   2. first/third-person singular subjunctive I
   3. singular imperative

Italian

Etymology

Borrowed from English cache.

Adjective

cache (invariable)

1. (computing, relational) cache

Noun

cache f (invariable)

1. (computing) cache

Further reading

• cache in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

Anagrams

• acché

Norman

Un cacheur d'od sen kien de cache.

Etymology

Inherited from Middle French cache, from Northern Old French cache, deverbal of cachier.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kɑ.ʃ/

Noun

cache m (plural caches)

1. hunt, hunting

   cache à l'houme ― manhunt

   cache oû trésor ― treasure hunt

   cache ès œufs ― Easter egg hunt

Verb

cache

1. first-person singular present indicative of cachi
2. third-person singular present indicative of cachi
3. first-person singular present subjunctive of cachi
4. third-person singular present subjunctive of cachi
5. second-person singular imperative of cachi

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From English cache.

Noun

cache m (definite singular cachen, indefinite plural cacher, definite plural cachene)

1. a cache (computing, geocaching)

References

• “cache_2” in Det Norske Akademis ordbok (NAOB).

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From English cache.

Noun

cache m (definite singular cachen, indefinite plural cachar, definite plural cachane)

1. a cache (computing, geocaching)

Polish

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English cache.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkɛʂ/, /ˈkaʂ/

• Audio:

  (file)

• Rhymes: -ɛʂ, -aʂ
• Syllabification: cache
• Homophones: karz, kasz, każ

Noun

cache m inan

1. (computing) cache (fast temporary storage where recently or frequently used information is stored to avoid having to reload it from a slower storage medium)

   Synonym: pamięć podręczna

Declension

Declension of cache

	singular
nominative	cache
genitive	cache'u
dative	cache'owi
accusative	cache
instrumental	cache'em
locative	cache'u
vocative	cache'u

Further reading

• cache in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• cache in Polish dictionaries at PWN
• cache in PWN's encyclopedia

Portuguese

Etymology 1

Borrowed from English cache, from French cache (“hiding place”).

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈkɛ.ʃi/, /ˈka.ʃi/

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈkɛ.ʃi/, /ˈka.ʃi/
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈkɛ.ʃe/, /ˈka.ʃe/

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈka.ʃɨ/

• Rhymes: (Brazil) -ɛʃi, (Brazil) -aʃi, (Portugal) -aʃɨ
• Hyphenation: ca‧che

Noun

cache m or f (plural caches)

1. (computing) cache (fast temporary storage for frequently used information)

   Synonym: memória cache

Usage notes

Masculine in Brazil, feminine in Portugal.

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈka.ʃi/

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈka.ʃi/
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈka.ʃe/

 

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈka.ʃɨ/

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈka.ʃɨ/
  • (Northern Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈka.t͡ʃɨ/

• Hyphenation: ca‧che

Verb

cache

1. inflection of cachar:
   1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
   2. third-person singular imperative
2. inflection of cachir:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkat͡ʃe/ [ˈka.t͡ʃe]
• Rhymes: -atʃe
• Syllabification: ca‧che

Etymology 1

Verb

cache

1. inflection of cachar:
   1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
   2. third-person singular imperative

Etymology 2

Unadapted borrowing from English cache.

Noun

cache m (plural caches)

1. Alternative form of caché (“temporary storage”)

Usage notes

According to Royal Spanish Academy (RAE) prescriptions, unadapted foreign words should be written in italics in a text printed in roman type, and vice versa, and in quotation marks in a manuscript text or when italics are not available. In practice, this RAE prescription is not always followed.