Noun: castañona
Gender: f
Hyphenation: cas‧ta‧ño‧na
| Singular f | castañona |
| Plural f | castañones |
Sample Sentences
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En esti suelu fértil se respeta
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De fabes y maíz y castañones,
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Y piescos y cirueles la coxeta (In this fertile soil you respect
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Of beans and corn and potatoes
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And of peaches and plums the harvest) [1887, Frai Domingo Hevia y Prieto, Amieva (poem):]
Nouns inflected like castañona
serena,
secura,
semeya,
semana,
sencia,
sandía,
sombra,
sirena,
sierra,
siella,
abondancia,
xungla,
xostra,
costiella,
xirafa,
belleya,
xastra,
xabola,
ambulancia,
llambedura, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From castaña + -ona: "big chestnut".
Translations