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Capachino, expresso & latte as gaeilge

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  • 04-12-2014 5:22pm
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    Registered Users Posts: 1


    Anyone know the irish fo Cappachino, expresso & latte - googling getting mixed results :-/
    Grma


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  • Administrators, Entertainment Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 18,719 Admin ✭✭✭✭✭hullaballoo


    You're probably getting wrong results because you've misspelt the words you're looking to translate. It's Cappuccino, espresso and latte.

    Unsurprisingly, these were not common drinks around the time that Irish was the main spoken language here so there won't be any native terms. In fact, native speakers would simply refer to them by their Italian names, the same way English speakers do.

    However, if you're looking to translate a description, caife le bainne describes both Cappuccino and latte and espresso could be caife brúite or something.

    The name for a Cappuccino seems to come from the capuchin monastic order, either because of the hoods they wore or their haircut (white bald pate surrounded by a ring of brown hair.)


  • Registered Users Posts: 1,145 ✭✭✭Poll Dubh


    Foras na Gaeilge have the same terms in Irish and English for cappuccino and espresso in its handbook of food and drinks terms.


  • Registered Users Posts: 4,698 ✭✭✭Gumbi


    They're Italian words and terms for Italian food, no need for there to be corresponding terms in Irish.


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