TORTHAÍ
IN FOCLÓIR GAEILGE—BÉARLA
cáipéis, f. (gs. ~e, pl. ~í). 1. Document. ~ dlí, legal document. Cuir do cháipéisí i leataobh, put aside your papers. S.a. mála 1(a). 2. (In phrases) ~ a chur ar dhuine, to serve a document on s.o.; to indict s.o. Níl ~ ar bith ort as sin, you cannot be indicted, penalized, for that. Ormsa atá an cháipéis, I am answerable, responsible. Ní chuirfidh tú an cháipéis sin díot, you won’t get over that charge. (Var:cáipéas m)
ABAIRTÍ
IN FOCLÓIR GAEILGE—BÉARLA
Airgead, cáipéis, a bhrionnú, to forge money, a document.
Cáipéis a chur i g~, to file a document.
Cáipéis, cuntas, síniú, bás, a dheimhniú, to certify a document, an account, a signature, a death.
Cáipéis, cuntas, a fhalsú, to falsify a document, an account.
~ cáipéisí, exhibition of documents.
~ cáipéisí, discovery of documents.
Do mharc a chur le cáipéis, to append one’s mark to a document.
Shac sé an cháipéis chugam, he thrust the document at me.
Do shéala a chur le cáipéis, to set one’s seal to a document.
2. Litir, cárta poist, cáipéis, a ~, to stamp a letter, a post-card, a document.
Cáipéis a thabhairt isteach, to bring in a document.
~ cáipéisí, exhibition of documents.
~ bille, cháipéis dlí, title of bill, of legal document.