Translingual

Castanea sativa with ripening chestnuts

Proper noun

Castanea f

1. A taxonomic genus within the family Fagaceae – the chestnuts.

Hypernyms

• (genus): Plantae - kingdom; angiosperms, eudicots, core eudicots, rosids, eurosids I - clades; Fagales - order; Fagaceae - family; Quercoideae - subfamily

Hyponyms

• (genus): Castanea sativa (sweet chestnut) - type species; Castanea crenata (Japanese chestnut), Castanea dentata (American chestnut), Castanea henryi (Chinese chinkapin), Castanea mollissima (Chinese chestnut), Castanea ozarkensis (Ozark chinkapin), Castanea pumila (Allegheny chinkapin), Castanea seguinii (Seguin's chestnut) - other species; Castanea × neglecta - nothospecies

Latin

Noun

castanea f ‎(genitive castaneae); first declension

1. a chestnut tree
2. a chestnut (nut)

Declension

First declension.

Synonyms

• (chestnut tree): castaneārius (Mediaeval)

Derived terms

• castaneālis
• castaneārius
• castaneolus
• castanētum
• castaneus

Descendants

References

• 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
• Félix Gaffiot (1934), “castănĕa”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette, page 271/2.
• “castanea” on page 281/3 of the Oxford Latin Dictionary (1st ed., 1968–82)