The corpus record — Latin

castanea

castanea · f

The chestnut-tree

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Where it lives

Copa, Appendix Vergiliana 1 · 42.19/10k
Eclogues 3 · 6.61/10k
De Re Coquinaria 3 · 1.91/10k
Georgicon 2 · 1.41/10k
Epistularum 1 · 1.1/10k
Ars Amatoria 1 · 0.67/10k
Res Rustica, Books I-IX 5 · 0.64/10k
Naturalis Historia 20 · 0.5/10k
Epigrammata 2 · 0.36/10k
Metamorphoses 1 · 0.13/10k

What it meant

castănĕa — Lewis & Short

castănĕa, ae, f., = ka/stanon.

I The chestnut-tree, Col. 4, 33; 5, 10, 14; Pall. Febr. 25, 33; id. Nov. 7, 17; Plin. 16, 40, 78, § 212; 17, 20, 34, § 147 sq.; Verg. G. 2, 15; 2, 71.—

II A chestnut, Verg. E. 1, 82; 7, 53; Plin. 13, 18, 32, § 110; 15, 28, 34, § 112; cf. appos. castaneae nuces, Verg. E. 2, 52; Ov. A. A. 2, 26, 8.

In the wild

castaneae Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 16.32.p3
castaneae Ovid, Metamorphoses 13.819
castaneis Apicius, De Re Coquinaria 5.191
castaneae Vergil, Eclogues 7
castaneae Vergil, Eclogues 1
castaneis Ausonius, Epistularum 30.37

6 of 39 attestations shown.

Where it came from

Ernout-Meillet, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue latine Treated in Ernout-Meillet, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue latine s.v. castanea (scan p. 128; entry #1861).

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