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καστανέα

kastanea · ἡ

chestnut-tree

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What it meant

καστανέα · kastanea — LSJ

chestnut-tree

chestnut-tree, Gp. 2.8.4:—also κάστανος, ἡ, Hsch. s.v. καρύαι; κάστανον, τό, Gp. 10.63.1; derived by the ancients from Καστανέα, a place in Asia Minor (πόλις Μαγνησίας), EM 493.26 (cf. Καστανὶς αἶα Nic. Al. 271); but cf. Armen. kask: for κάρυον κασταναϊκόν, v. κάρυον.

Where it came from

No etymology authority pointer is recorded for this lemma yet — an honest gap, not an omission. The etymological dictionaries (Beekes, Chantraine, Frisk) are matched incrementally.

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