castanea

See also: Castanea, castañea, and castañeá

Latin

Etymology

From Ancient Greek καστάνεια (kastáneia), from κᾰ́στᾰνᾰ (kástana)

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /kasˈta.ne.a/, [käs̠ˈt̪äneä]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /kasˈta.ne.a/, [käsˈt̪äːneä]

Noun

castanea f (genitive castaneae); first declension

1. a chestnut tree
2. a chestnut (nut)

Declension

First-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	castanea	castaneae
Genitive	castaneae	castaneārum
Dative	castaneae	castaneīs
Accusative	castaneam	castaneās
Ablative	castaneā	castaneīs
Vocative	castanea	castaneae

Synonyms

• (chestnut tree): castaneārius (Mediaeval)

Derived terms

• castaneālis
• castaneārius
• castaneolus
• castanētum
• castaneus

Descendants

• Eastern Romance:
  • Aromanian: cãstãnji
• Corsican: castagna
• Italian: castagna
• Old French: chastaigne
  • Middle French: chastaigne
    • French: châtaigne
  • Norman: chât'nyi
  • Picard: castagne
    • → Dutch: kastanje
  • Walloon: cascagne
  • → Middle English: (with Old English ċisten) chesteyne, chasteine, chasten, chasteyn, chaston, chestan, chestayn, chesten, chestein, chestyn, cheston, kesteyn
    • English: chesten (obsolete)
      • ⇒ English: chestnut
        • → Middle Scots: chastnut (calque)
          • Scots: chestnut
    • Middle Scots: chastan, chasten, chestane
  • → Swedish: kastanj
    • → Finnish: kastanja
• Old Leonese:
  • Asturian: castaña
• Old Occitan:
  • Catalan: castanya
  • Occitan: castanha
• Old Galician-Portuguese: castanna
  • Galician: castaña
  • Portuguese: castanha
• Old Spanish: castanna
  • Spanish: castaña (see there for further descendants)
• Rhaeto-Romance:
  • Friulian: cjastine
• Sicilian: castagna
• Venetian: castegna
• → Albanian: gështenjë
• → Alemannic German: Chestene
• → Arabic: كَسْتَنَاء (kastanāʔ)
  • Hijazi Arabic: كستنا (kastana)
• → Czech: kaštan
• → Estonian: kastan
• → German: Kastanie (see there for further descendants)
• → Latgalian: kaštans
• → Latvian: kastanis
• → Lithuanian: kaštonas
• → Luxembourgish: Käscht
• → Macedonian: костен (kosten)
• → Manx: castan
• → Romanian: castan
• → Old English: ċisten
  • Middle English: (with Old French chastaigne) chesteyne, chasteine, chasten, chasteyn, chaston, chestan, chestayn, chesten, chestein, chestyn, cheston, kesteyn
    • English: chesten (obsolete)
      • ⇒ English: chestnut
        • → Middle Scots: chastnut (calque)
          • Scots: chestnut
    • Middle Scots: chastan, chasten, chestane
• → Scottish Gaelic: castan
• → Slovak: gaštan
• → Slovene: kostanj
• (+ gwŷdd (“trees”))

References

• “castănĕa”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “castanea”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• castănĕa in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette, page 271/2.
• “castanea” on page 281/3 of the Oxford Latin Dictionary (1st ed., 1968–82)