castella

• Rhymes: -ɛlə

castella

1. plural of castellum

From Japanese カステラ (kasutera), from Portuguese pão de Castela (literally “bread of Castile”), an old type of sponge cake which they brought to Japan. Compare Italian pandispagna, Tagalog Pan de Kastila (“Spanish bread”).

castella (usually uncountable, plural castellas)

1. A Japanese sponge cake made of sugar, flour, eggs, and starch syrup.

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castella

1. plural of castellum

castella n

1. nominative/accusative/vocative plural of castellum

• "castella", in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)