caffeine

caffeine

English

Alternative forms

• caffein

Etymology

From French caféine,[1] from café (“coffee”), or German Caffein, Kaffein[2] (cp. Coffein, Koffein), from Kaffee (“coffee”) (cp. Kaffe, Koffee, Koffe), or Italian caffè (“coffee”) +‎ -ine.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkæfiːn/, /kæˈfiːn/

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• Rhymes: -æfiːn, -iːn

Noun

caffeine (usually uncountable, plural caffeines)

1. An alkaloid, C₈H₁₀N₄O₂, found naturally in tea and coffee plants which acts as a mild stimulant on the central nervous system. [from 1830]

   Coordinate terms: guaranine, mateine, theine

Derived terms

• apocaffeine
• caffeine-free
• caffeinic
• diethoxyhydroxycaffeine
• hydroxycaffeine
• hypocaffeine

Translations

alkaloid found naturally in tea and coffee plants

Albanian: kafeinë (sq) f Arabic: كَافِيِين‎ m (kāfiyīn) Armenian: կոֆեին (hy) (kofein) Asturian: cafeína f Azerbaijani: kofein Belarusian: кафеі́н m (kafjeín) Bengali: ক্যাফিন (kêphin) Bulgarian: кофеи́н m (kofeín) Burmese: ကေဖိန်း (kehpin:) Catalan: cafeïna (ca) f Chinese: Cantonese: 咖啡因 (gaa3 fe1 jan1) Hakka: 咖啡因 (kha-fei-yin, kà-pì-yîn) Mandarin: 咖啡因 (zh) (kāfēiyīn), 咖啡鹼／咖啡碱 (zh) (kāfēijiǎn) Min Nan: 咖啡因 (ka-pi-in) Czech: kofein m Danish: koffein n or c Dutch: cafeïne (nl) m or f Esperanto: kafeino Estonian: kofeiin Finnish: kofeiini (fi) French: caféine (fr) f Galician: cafeína (gl) f Georgian: კოფეინი (ḳopeini) German: Koffein (de) n, Coffein (de) n Greek: καφεΐνη (el) f (kafeḯni) Hebrew: קָפֶאִין‎ (he) m (kafeín) Hindi: कैफ़ीन f (kaifīn), कैफीन f (kaiphīn) Hungarian: koffein (hu) Icelandic: koffín (is) n, kaffín (is) n (dated) Ido: kafeino (io) Indonesian: kafein Irish: caiféin f Italian: caffeina (it) f Japanese: カフェイン (kafein) Kazakh: кофеин (kofein) Khmer: កាហ្វេអ៊ីន (kahvé'in) Korean: 카페인 (ko) (kapein) Kyrgyz: кофеин (kofein) Lao: ກາເຟອີນ (kā fē ʼīn), ຄາເຟອີນ (khā fē ʼīn) Latin: coffēinum n Latvian: kofeīns m Lithuanian: kofeinas m Macedonian: кофеи́н m (kofeín) Malagasy: kafeinina, kafeina (mg) Malay: kafein Manx: caffeen f Mongolian: Cyrillic: кофеин (kofein) Norwegian: Bokmål: koffein (no) m or n Nynorsk: koffein m or n Persian: کافئین‎ (fa) (kâfe'in) Polish: kofeina (pl) f Portuguese: cafeína (pt) f Romanian: cafeină (ro) f, cofeină (ro) f Russian: кофеи́н (ru) m (kofeín) Scottish Gaelic: caifein m Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: кофѐӣн m Roman: kofèīn (sh) m Slovak: kofeín (sk) m Slovene: kofein (sl) m Spanish: cafeína (es) f Swedish: koffein (sv) n Tajik: кофеин (kofeyin) Thai: กาเฟอีน (th) (gaa-fee-iin), คาเฟอีน (kaa-fee-iin) Turkish: kafein (tr) Turkmen: kafein, kafeyin Ukrainian: кофеї́н m (kofejín) Urdu: کیفین‎ (kaifīn) Uyghur: كوففېئىن‎ (koffë'in) Uzbek: kofein (uz) Vietnamese: cafêin, cà phê tinh, caffein Volapük: kafein Welsh: caffîn m Yiddish: קאַפֿעיִן‎ m (kafein) Yoruba: kaféènì

References

1. “caffeine”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
2. Douglas Harper (2001–2023), “caffeine”, in Online Etymology Dictionary.

Further reading

• caffeine on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

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Italian

Noun

caffeine f pl

1. plural of caffeina