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Ancient Greek
Etymology
From Phoenician equivalent to Ugaritic 𐎚𐎐𐎐 (tnn /tunnanu/) and Hebrew תַּנִּין (tannīn, “water animal, sea monster”) and also attested in three tophet stelae at Hadrumetum in the name of the peninsula in front of Monastir 𐤀𐤉𐤕𐤍𐤌 (ʾytnm /ʾī tunnīm/, literally “Island of Tunnies”) referring to its Tonnara.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /tʰýn.nos/ → /ˈθyn.nos/ → /ˈθi.nos/
Noun
θῠ́ννος • (thúnnos) m (genitive θῠ́ννου); second declension
- tuna (fish)
Inflection
Descendants
References
- “θύννος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “θύννος”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- θύννος in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
- Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN
- Lipiński, Edward (2004) Itineraria Phoenicia (Orientalia Lovaniensia Analecta; 127), Leuven: Peeters Publishers, →ISBN, page 12