caipiteal

Irish

Etymology

Borrowed from English capital, from Latin capitālis.

Noun

caipiteal m (genitive singular caipitil)

1. (economics, business, finance) capital

Declension

Declension of caipiteal (first declension, no plural)

bare forms singular nominative caipiteal vocative a chaipitil genitive caipitil dative caipiteal forms with the definite article singular nominative an caipiteal genitive an chaipitil dative leis an gcaipiteal don chaipiteal

Derived terms

• caipiteal ainmniúil (“nominal capital”)
• caipiteal cúltaca (“reserve capital”)
• caipiteal eisithe (“issued capital”)
• caipiteal glaoite (“called-up capital”)
• caipiteal íoctha (“paid-up capital”)
• caipiteal marbh (“capital lying idle”)
• caipiteal neamhghlaoite (“uncalled capital”)
• caipiteal reatha (“circulating capital”)
• caipitleachas
• caipitlí
• caipitligh (“capitalize”, transitive verb)
• méadú caipitil (“increase of capital”)

Related terms

• caipitiúil (“capital”, adjective)
• caipitlíoch (“capitalistic”, adjective)

Mutation

Mutated forms of caipiteal

radical	lenition	eclipsis
caipiteal	chaipiteal	gcaipiteal

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), “caipiteal”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla [Irish–English Dictionary], Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
• “capital”, in New English-Irish Dictionary, Foras na Gaeilge, 2013–2026