captaen

Irish

Borrowed from Old French capitaine, from Late Latin capitāneus, from Latin caput (“head”).

captaen m (genitive singular captaein, nominative plural captaein)

captain (person lawfully in command of a ship or other vessel)
- 1938, Peig Sayers, “Inghean an Cheannaidhe”[1]:
  Ba ghnáthach le captaen óg luinge teacht ar cuaird go tig an cheannaidhe go minic agus do bhíodh sé ana-cheanamhail ar Mháire Bhán.
  A young ship’s captain had the custom of often visiting the merchant’s house and he was very fond of Máire Bhán.
captain (military rank)
captain (member of a sports team designated to make decisions)

Declension of captaen

First declension

Bare forms:

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	an captaen	na captaein
Genitive	an chaptaein	na gcaptaen
Dative	leis an gcaptaen don chaptaen	leis na captaein

Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Eclipsis
captaen	chaptaen	gcaptaen
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

C. Marstrander, E. G. Quin et al., editors (1913–76), “captaen”, in Dictionary of the Irish Language: Based Mainly on Old and Middle Irish Materials, Dublin: Royal Irish Academy, →ISBN
“captaoin” in Foclóir Gaeḋilge agus Béarla, Irish Texts Society, 2nd ed., 1927, by Patrick S. Dinneen.
"captaen" in Foclóir Gaeilge-Béarla, An Gúm, 1977, by Niall Ó Dónaill.

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