cafeína

See also: cafeìna and cafeïna

Asturian

Noun

cafeína f (uncountable)

1. caffeine (alkaloid found naturally in tea and coffee plants)

Portuguese

cafeína

Etymology 1

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ka.feˈĩ.nɐ/

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ka.feˈĩ.nɐ/
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /ka.feˈi.na/

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /kɐ.feˈi.nɐ/, /kɐ.fɛˈi.nɐ/

• Hyphenation: ca‧fe‧í‧na

Noun

cafeína f (plural cafeínas)

1. caffeine (alkaloid found naturally in tea and coffee plants)

Further reading

• “cafeína”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2026
• “cafeína”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026

Etymology 2

Verb

cafeína

1. inflection of cafeinar:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

Spanish

Etymology

From café (“coffee”) +‎ -ina.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kafeˈina/ [ka.feˈi.na]
• Rhymes: -ina
• Syllabification: ca‧fe‧í‧na

Noun

cafeína f (plural cafeínas)

1. caffeine

   Coordinate terms: teína, guaranina

Derived terms

• descafeinar

Further reading

• “cafeína”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025