castaña

See also: castana, Castana, and castană

AsturianEdit

EtymologyEdit

From Latin castanea.

NounEdit

castaña f (plural castañes)

  1. chestnut (nut of the chestnut tree)

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GalicianEdit

 
Castañas ("chestnuts")

EtymologyEdit

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

PronunciationEdit

NounEdit

castaña f (plural castañas)

  1. chestnut
    • 1418, Sada / A Coruña, Manuel Lucas Álvarez; Pedro Lucas Domínguez, editors, El priorato benedictino de San Vicenzo de Pombeiro y su colección diplomática en la Edad Media, 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

AdjectiveEdit

castaña f sg

  1. feminine singular of castaño

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ReferencesEdit

  • castaña” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006–2022.
  • castaña” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006–2018.
  • 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.

SpanishEdit

EtymologyEdit

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

PronunciationEdit

  • IPA(key): /kasˈtaɲa/ [kasˈt̪a.ɲa]
  • (file)
  • Rhymes: -aɲa
  • Syllabification: cas‧ta‧ña

NounEdit

castaña f (plural castañas)

  1. chestnut
  2. (colloquial) strike, wallop (hard hit)
  3. bun, chignon (haircut)
  4. (colloquial) drunkenness
    Synonyms: see Thesaurus:borrachera
  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)
    Synonym: año

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AdjectiveEdit

castaña

  1. feminine singular of castaño

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