different between caf vs cada

English

Etymology

Clippings.

Pronunciation

• enPR: k?f, IPA^(key): /kæf/
• Rhymes: -æf

Noun

caf (plural cafs)

1. (informal) A café.
   • 2008, Carlos Frías, Take Me with You: A Memoir:

     Fourth on the list of the businesses my father and his brothers had owned was a caf on the corner of San Ignacio and Lamparilla in Old Havana.

2. (informal) A cafeteria.
   • 2005, Amy Davis, Adam Burns, Michigan State University, page 49:

     There are plenty of restaurants to choose from when you're sick of the ol’ caf food.

   • 2009, Lili St. Crow, Betrayals:

     Locked, empty classrooms on either side, other halls opening up to go down to the caf, two janitors' closets. Janitors' closets. Great. One was locked.
3. A caffeinated coffee.

Related terms

• (caffeinated coffee): decaf, half-caf

Translations

Anagrams

• ACF, AFC, CFA, FAC, FCA, fac

Middle English

Noun

caf

1. Alternative form of chaf

Old English

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *kaibaz (“strong, lively, brave”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /k??f/

Adjective

c?f

1. quick, sharp, prompt, nimble, swift
2. bold, brave

Declension

Descendants

• Middle English: kafe, cave, cof, cove
  • Scots: caif, kaif

Volapük

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /t?af/

Noun

caf (nominative plural cafs)

1. kettle

Declension

Welsh

Alternative forms

• ca (colloquial)

Pronunciation

• (North Wales) (standard) IPA^(key): /ka?v/
  • (North Wales) (colloquial) IPA^(key): /ka?/
• (South Wales) (standard) (colloquial) IPA^(key): /ka?v/
  • (South Wales) (colloquial) IPA^(key): /ka?/

Verb

caf

1. (literary) first-person singular present indicative/future of cael

Mutation

Asturian

Etymology

From Latin cata (“by, for each”), from Ancient Greek ???? (katá).

Adjective

cada

1. each, every

Derived terms

• cada cuando
• cada muncho
• cada poco

Catalan

Etymology

From Old Occitan [Term?], from Latin cata (“by, for each”), from Ancient Greek ???? (katá).

Pronunciation

• (Balearic, Central) IPA^(key): /?ka.d?/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /?ka.da/

Adjective

cada

1. each
2. every

Derived terms

Related terms

• cadascú, cadascun

Further reading

• “cada” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “cada” in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana.
• “cada” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “cada” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

Galician

Etymology

From Old Portuguese cada, from Latin cata (“by, for each”), from Ancient Greek ???? (katá).

Pronunciation

Noun

cada

1. each

Italian

Verb

cada

1. first/second/third-person singular present subjunctive of cadere
2. third-person singular imperative of cadere

Occitan

Alternative forms

• chasca (Auvergne, Limousin, Provençal, Vivaro-Alpine)

Adjective

cada m or f (feminine singular cada, masculine plural cadas, feminine plural cadas) (Languedoc, Gascony)

1. each
2. every

Portuguese

Etymology

From Old Portuguese cada, from Latin cata (“by”), from Ancient Greek ???? (katá).

Pronunciation

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /?k?.ð?/
• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /?ka.d?/, [?kä.d??]
• Rhymes: -ada

Pronoun

cada

1. each (qualifying a singular noun, indicating all examples of the thing so named seen as individual or separate items)

2. used as an intensifier

Quotations

For quotations using this term, see Citations:cada.

Derived terms

• cada qual
• cada um
• cada uma

Romanian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?kada]

Noun

cada f

1. definite nominative/accusative singular of cad?

Spanish

Etymology

From Old Spanish cada, from Latin cata, from Ancient Greek ???? (katá).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?kada/, [?ka.ð?a]

Determiner

cada

1. each; every
   • 2008, Idan Raichel, Cada Día

Usage notes

Although an indefinite determiner (which means by definition that it modifies a noun), cada does not undergo any kind of inflection. In other words, its ending will not change to -o when modifying a masculine noun. It remains cada.

Derived terms

• a cada uno lo suyo (“to each his own”)