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castaña

See also: castana, Castana, and castană

Asturian

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Etymology

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From Latin castanea.

Noun

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castaña f (plural castañes)

  1. chestnut (nut of the chestnut tree)
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Galician

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Castañas ("chestnuts")

Alternative forms

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Etymology

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

Pronunciation

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Noun

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castaña f (plural castañas)

  1. chestnut
    • 1418, Sada / A Coruña, edited by Manuel Lucas Álvarez and Pedro Lucas Domínguez, 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

Adjective

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castaña f sg

  1. feminine singular of castaño
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References

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  • Ernesto González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “castaña”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: ILG
  • Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “castaña”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: ILG
  • “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

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Etymology

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

Pronunciation

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

Noun

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castaña f (plural castañas)

  1. chestnut
  2. (colloquial) strike, wallop (hard hit)
    Synonyms: torta, trastazo
  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)
    Synonym: año
    Tiene 40 castañas
    He's 40 (years old)

Derived terms

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Descendants

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Adjective

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castaña

  1. feminine singular of castaño

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