castaña
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Castañas ("chestnuts")
Asturian
Etymology
Noun
castaña f (plural castañes)
- chestnut (nut of the chestnut tree)
Related terms
Galician
Alternative forms
- castanha (Reintegrationist)
Etymology
From Old Galician-Portuguese castanna, from Latin castanea, from Ancient Greek καστάνεια (kastáneia).
Pronunciation
Noun
castaña f (plural castañas)
- 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
castaña f sg
Related terms
References
- Ernesto Xosé 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: Instituto da Lingua Galega
- Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “castaña”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: ILG
- Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “castaña”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
- Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “castaña”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
- Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “castaña”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN
Spanish
Etymology
Inherited from Old Spanish castanna, from Latin castanea, from Ancient Greek καστάνεια (kastáneia).
Pronunciation
Noun
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)
- Synonym: año
- Tiene 40 castañas
- He's 40 (years old)
Derived terms
Related terms
Descendants
- ⇒ 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)
Adjective
castaña
Further reading
- “castaño”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.7, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2023 November 28