castaño

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See also: castano and Castaño

Asturian

Adjective

castaño

  1. neuter of castañu

Galician

Alternative forms

Etymology

Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese castanho, from Latin castaneus. Compare Portuguese castanho.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /kasˈtaɲo/
  • Rhymes: -aɲo
  • Hyphenation: cas‧ta‧ño

Adjective

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

  1. chestnut brown
    Synonyms: marrón, pardo
  2. chestnut wood
    • 1438, X. Ferro Couselo, editor, 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

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See also

Colors in Galician · cores (layout · text)
     branco      gris      negro, preto
             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/
  • Audio (Colombia):(file)
  • 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)

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