castaña
AsturianEdit
EtymologyEdit
NounEdit
castaña f (plural castañes)
- chestnut (nut of the chestnut tree)
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GalicianEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Old Galician-Portuguese castanna, from Latin castanea, from Ancient Greek καστάνεια (kastáneia).
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
castaña f (plural castañas)
- 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
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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
NounEdit
castaña f (plural castañas)
- chestnut
- (colloquial) strike, wallop (hard hit)
- bun, chignon (haircut)
- (colloquial) drunkenness
- Synonyms: see Thesaurus:borrachera
- (colloquial) yawn (boring thing)
- (colloquial) piece of junk
- (colloquial) year (used in talking about ages)
- Tiene 40 castañas
- He's 40 (years old)
- Synonym: año
Derived termsEdit
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DescendantsEdit
- ⇒ Spanish: castañeta
- → Czech: kastaněty
- → English: castanet
- → Estonian: kastanjett
- → French: castagnette
- → Dutch: castagnet
- → Norwegian Bokmål: kastanjett
- → Norwegian Nynorsk: kastanjett
- → Finnish: kastanjetit
- → Hungarian: kasztanyetta
- → Irish: castainéid
- → Italian: castagnetta
- → Japanese: カスタネット
- → Macedonian: кастане́ти (kastanéti)
- → Polish: kastaniety
- → Romanian: castanietă
- → Russian: кастаньета (kastanʹjeta)
- → Cebuano: kastanyas (from the plural)
- → Tagalog: kastanyas (from the plural)
AdjectiveEdit
castaña
Further readingEdit
- “castaño”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014