castanea

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

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

castanea f (genitive castaneae); first declension

1. a chestnut tree
   • 70 BCE – 19 BCE, Virgil, Eclogues 7.53:

     Stant et iūniperī et castaneae hirsūtae

     Here stand junipers and shaggy chestnut trees

2. a chestnut (nut)

First-declension noun.

• (chestnut tree): castaneārius (Mediaeval)

• castaneālis
• castaneārius
• castaneolus
• castanētum
• castaneus

• “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)