Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

• καστάναια ‎(kastánaia)
• κάστανοι ‎(kástanoi)
• καστανίαι ‎(kastaníai)
• καστάνεια ‎(kastáneia)

• (4th AD Koine) IPA^(key): /kástanon/

• (10th AD Byzantine) IPA^(key): /kástanon/

• (15th AD Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /kástanon/

Noun

κάστανον • ‎(kástanon) n ‎(genitive καστάνου); second declension

1. chestnut

Usage notes

Usually in plural. The singular is quite rare. Many of the Alternative forms are given in the plural (their only attested form).

Inflection

Descendants

• Latin: castanea
• Russian: каштан m ‎(kaštán)

References

• κάστανον in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• «κάστανον» in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• «κάστανον» in Trapp, Erich, et al. (1994–2007) Lexikon zur byzantinischen Gräzität besonders des 9.-12. Jahrhunderts [the Lexicon of Byzantine Hellenism, Particularly the 9th-12th Centuries], Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften
• Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill