cáca

See also: caca, Caca, caça, caçà, căca, and ćaća

Irish

Etymology

From Middle Irish cáca, from Old Norse kaka (“cake”), from Proto-Germanic *kakǭ (“cake”), from Proto-Indo-European *gog (“ball-shaped object”).

Pronunciation

Noun

cáca m (genitive singular cáca, nominative plural cácaí)

  1. cake (small mass of baked dough; thin wafer-shaped mass of fried batter)
    Synonym: císte

Declension
Declension of cáca

Fourth declension

Bare forms

Case Singular Plural
Nominative cáca cácaí
Vocative a cháca a chácaí
Genitive cáca cácaí
Dative cáca cácaí

Forms with the definite article

Case Singular Plural
Nominative an cáca na cácaí
Genitive an cháca na gcácaí
Dative leis an gcáca

don cháca

 leis na cácaí

Derived terms
  • bosca an cháca m (“cake tin”) (for storing cake)
  • cáca bacstaí m (“boxty”)
  • cáca baile m (“homemade cake”)
  • cáca bainise m (“bride-cake, wedding-cake”)
  • cáca beag m (“pastry”)
  • cáca biotáille m (“tipsy-cake”)
  • cáca boise m (“(small) cake”)
  • cáca caife m (“coffee cake”)
  • cáca cainéil m (“cinnamon cake”)
  • cáca cairéid m (“carrot cake”)
  • cáca cearbhais m (“seed-cake”)
  • cáca cróch m (“saffron cake”)
  • cáca cuiríní m (“currant cake”)
  • cáca éisc m (“fishcake”)
  • cáca gridille m (“griddle-cake”)
  • cáca lá breithe m (“birthday cake”)
  • cáca meala m (“honey-cake”)
  • cáca milis m (“cake (sweet dessert)”)
  • cáca minchoirce m (“(oat-)cake”)
  • cáca ola m (“oil-cake”)
  • cáca portáin m (“crab cake”)
  • cáca prátaí m (“potato cake”)
  • cáca reoánta m (“fancy cake”)
  • cáca rísíní m (“plum-cake”)
  • cáca seacláide m (“chocolate cake”)
  • cáca sinséir m (“ginger cake”)
  • cáca síol cotúin m (“cotton-cake”)
  • cáca síol rois m (“linseed-cake”)
  • cáca spúinse m (“sponge cake”)
  • cáca srathach m (“layer cake”)
  • cáca tae m (“tea-cake”)
  • cáca torthaí m (“fruit cake”)
  • cáca úll m (“apple-tart”)
  • meascán cáca m (“cake mixture”)
  • stán cáca m (“cake tin”) (baking tin)

Mutation
Irish mutation
Radical Lenition Eclipsis
cáca cháca gcáca
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Further reading
  • "cáca" in Foclóir Gaeilge-Béarla, An Gúm, 1977, by Niall Ó Dónaill.
  • “cáca” in Dictionary of the Irish Language, Royal Irish Academy, 1913–76.
  • Entries containing “cáca” in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm, 1959, by Tomás de Bhaldraithe.
  • Entries containing “cáca” in New English-Irish Dictionary by Foras na Gaeilge.
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