castanea

See also: Castanea, castañea, and castañeá

Latin

castanea f (genitive castaneae); first declension

a chestnut tree
- 70 BCE – 19 BCE, Virgil, Eclogues 7.53:
  Stant et iūniperī et castaneae hirsūtae
  Here stand junipers and shaggy chestnut trees
a chestnut (nut)

Balkan Romance:
- Aromanian: cãstãnji
- Megleno-Romanian: căstǫn'ă
Italo-Romance:
- Corsican: castagna
- Italian: castagna (see there for further descendants)
- Neapolitan: castagna
- Sicilian: castagna
Padanian:
- Friulian: cjastine
- Venetan: castegna
Gallo-Romance:
- Catalan: castanya
- Franco-Provençal: châtagne
- Old French: chastaigne (see there for further descendants)
- Occitan: castanha
Ibero-Romance:
- Asturian: castaña
- Old Galician-Portuguese: castanna
  - Galician: castaña
  - Portuguese: castanha
- Old Spanish: castanna
  - Spanish: castaña (see there for further descendants)

Unsorted borrowings:

→ Albanian: gështenjë
→ Basque: gaztaina
→ Proto-Brythonic:
- Breton: kistin
- Cornish: kesten
- Welsh: castan ⇒ castanwydd
→ Czech: kaštan
→ Estonian: kasta
→ Old Irish: castán
- Irish: castán
- Manx: castan
- Scottish Gaelic: castan
→ Latgalian: kaštans
→ Latvian: kastanis
→ Lithuanian: kaštonas
→ Macedonian: костен (kosten)
→ Polish: kasztan
→ Ukrainian: каштан (kaštan)
→ Russian: каштан (kaštan)
→ Slovak: gaštan
→ Slovene: kostanj
→ Proto-West Germanic: *kastannjā (see there for further descendants)

“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)