castaño

See also: castano and Castaño

Asturian

Adjective

castaño

1. neuter of castañu

Galician

Etymology

From Old Galician and Old Portuguese castanno, from Latin castaneus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [kɑsˈtaɲʊ]

Adjective

castaño m (feminine singular castaña, masculine plural castaños, feminine plural castañas)

1. chestnut brown

   Synonyms: marrón, pardo

2. chestnut wood
   • 1438, X. Ferro Couselo (ed.), A vida e a fala dos devanceiros. Escolma de documentos en galego dos séculos XIII ao XVI. Vigo: Galaxia, page 413:

     an de dar dosentos madeiros de castaño ou de ameyro, de dez cóbedos en longo cada huun

     They shall give two hundred logs of chestnut or of black alder wood, ten cubits long each one

Related terms

• Castaño
• castiñeiro

See also

Colors in Galician · cores (layout · text)

branco	gris	negro
vermello; carmín	laranxa; castaño, marrón	amarelo; crema
verde lima	verde	menta; verde escuro
ciano; azul verdoso	cerúleo	azul
violeta; anil	maxenta; púrpura	rosa

References

• “castaño” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006–2022.
• “castaño” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006–2018.
• “castaño” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
• “castaño” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
• “castaño” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

Spanish

Etymology

Probably from Latin castaneus, or a back-formation from castaña. Compare Portuguese castanho. Compare also Vulgar Latin *cassanus, from Celtic, and French chêne.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kasˈtaɲo/ [kasˈt̪a.ɲo]

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• Rhymes: -aɲo
• Syllabification: cas‧ta‧ño

Adjective

castaño (feminine castaña, masculine plural castaños, feminine plural castañas)

1. brown (chestnut colored)

   Synonym: marrón

Noun

castaño m (plural castaños)

1. chestnut (tree)

Derived terms

• pasar de castaño oscuro

 

Related terms

• castaña

Further reading

• “castaño”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014