castaña

See also: castana, Castana, and castană

Asturian

Etymology

From Latin castanea.

Noun

castaña f (plural castañes)

  1. chestnut (nut of the chestnut tree)

Galician
Castañas ("chestnuts")

Etymology

From Old Galician and Old Portuguese castanna, from Latin castanea, from Ancient Greek καστάνεια (kastáneia).

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /kasˈtaɲa̝/

Noun

castaña f (plural castañas)

  1. chestnut
    • 1418, Manuel Lucas Álvarez & Pedro Lucas Domínguez (eds.), El priorato benedictino de San Vicenzo de Pombeiro y su colección diplomática en la Edad Media. Sada / A Coruña: Ediciós do Castro, page 148:
      seys teegas de castanas secas et linpas et escolleytas dos cascõõs et do podre
      six measures of dry and clean chesnuts, free of dried ones and of rotten ones

Adjective

castaña f sg

  1. feminine singular of castaño
  • Castañal
  • Castañedo
  • Castañeira
  • Castañoso
  • Casteda
  • Castenda
  • Castedo
  • Castido
  • Castiñeira
  • Castiñeiras
  • Castiñeiriño
  • castiñeiro
  • Castiñeiro
  • Castiñeiros
  • castiro

References
  • “castaña” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006-2012.
  • “castaña” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006-2016.
  • “castaña” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006-2013.
  • “castaña” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
  • “castaña” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

Spanish

Etymology

From Old Spanish castanna, from Latin castanea, from Ancient Greek καστάνεια (kastáneia).

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /kasˈtaɲa/, [kasˈt̪aɲa]

Noun

castaña f (plural castañas)

  1. chestnut
  2. (colloquial) strike, wallop (hard hit)
  3. bun, chignon (haircut)
  4. (colloquial) drunkenness
  5. (colloquial) yawn (boring thing)
  6. (colloquial) piece of junk
  7. (colloquial) year (used in talking about ages)
    Tiene 40 castañas
    He's 40 (years old)

Synonyms

Derived terms
Descendants

Adjective

castaña

  1. feminine singular of castaño

Further reading
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