different between castanea vs chinquapin

Latin

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ????????? (kastáneia), from ???????? (kástana)

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /kas?ta.ne.a/, [käs??t?äneä]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /kas?ta.ne.a/, [k?s?t???n??]

Noun

castanea f (genitive castaneae); first declension

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

Declension

First-declension noun.

Synonyms

• (chestnut tree): castane?rius (Mediaeval)

Derived terms

• castane?lis
• castane?rius
• castaneolus
• castan?tum
• castaneus

Descendants

References

• cast?n?a 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
• cast?n?a in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette, page 271/2
• “castanea” on page 281/3 of the Oxford Latin Dictionary (1st ed., 1968–82)

English

Alternative forms

• chinkapin, chincapin

Etymology

Like its cognate / alternative form chinkapin, chinquapin is an alteration of chechinquamin / chincomen (the form found in early records), from an Algonquian language (sometimes said specifically to be from Powhatan). The final element is *mini (“berry, fruit”). Hewitt suggested that the first element was a word meaning "large, great" cognate to xinkw- (“big, large, great”).

Noun

chinquapin (plural chinquapins)

1. Any of the trees in the genus Castanopsis.
2. Any of the trees and shrubs in the genus Chrysolepis.
3. A water chinquapin, the water plant Nelumbo lutea, American lotus.
4. The redear sunfish (Lepomis microlophus).
5. A species in the chestnut genus Castanea:
   1. Allegheny chinkapin (Castanea pumila)
   2. Ozark chinkapin (Castanea ozarkensis)
   3. Chinese chinkapin (Castanea henryi)
6. A chinkapin oak (Quercus muehlenbergii), a species of oak whose leaves resemble those of chestnut-genus chinquapins.

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