Kastanie

German

Etymology

From Middle High German kastānie, ultimately from Latin castanea (“nut”), from Ancient Greek καστάνεια (kastáneia), from κᾰ́στᾰνᾰ (kástana, “sweet chestnuts”), further origin uncertain.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kasˈtaːni̯ə/

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Noun

Kastanie f (genitive Kastanie, plural Kastanien)

1. chestnut
   1. a tree of the genus Castanea, or its nut
   2. horse-chestnut, a tree of the genus Aesculus, or its nut

      Synonym: Rosskastanie

Usage notes

• In biological terminology, the simplex Kastanie refers to the genus Castanea, while Aesculus must be specified as Rosskastanie. However, in non-specialist use it is often the horse-chestnut which is thought of as the proto-typical Kastanie.

Declension

Declension of Kastanie [feminine]

	singular			plural
	indef.	def.	noun	def.	noun
nominative	eine	die	Kastanie	die	Kastanien
genitive	einer	der	Kastanie	der	Kastanien
dative	einer	der	Kastanie	den	Kastanien
accusative	eine	die	Kastanie	die	Kastanien

Synonyms

• (edible nut): Marone, Maroni

Derived terms

• Kastanienbaum m
• Kastanienente f
• kastanienfarbig
• Kastanienholz n

Descendants

• → Bulgarian: кестен (kesten) (or from Ottoman Turkish)
• → Hungarian: gesztenye
• → Polish: kasztan
  • → Belarusian: каштан (kaštan)
  • → Russian: каштан (kaštan)
  • → Ukrainian: каштан (kaštan)
• → Serbo-Croatian: (or from Ottoman Turkish)

  Cyrillic script: кестен

  Latin script: kesten

Further reading

• “Kastanie” in Duden online
• “Kastanie” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache