πηλαμύς

Ancient Greek

Likely from Pre-Greek.^[1]

πηλᾰμῠ́ς • (pēlamús) f (genitive πηλᾰμῠ́δος); third declension

young tunny
- 384 BCE – 322 BCE, Aristotle, History of Animals 571a11
- 497 BCE – 405 BCE, Sophocles, Fragments 503
- Oppian, Halieutica 1.113

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ πηλᾰμῠ́ς hē pēlamús	τὼ πηλᾰμῠ́δε tṑ pēlamúde	αἱ πηλᾰμῠ́δες hai pēlamúdes
Genitive	τῆς πηλᾰμῠ́δος tês pēlamúdos	τοῖν πηλᾰμῠ́δοιν toîn pēlamúdoin	τῶν πηλᾰμῠ́δων tôn pēlamúdōn
Dative	τῇ πηλᾰμῠ́δῐ têi pēlamúdi	τοῖν πηλᾰμῠ́δοιν toîn pēlamúdoin	ταῖς πηλᾰμῠ́σῐ / πηλᾰμῠ́σῐν taîs pēlamúsi(n)
Accusative	τὴν πηλᾰμῠ́δᾰ tḕn pēlamúda	τὼ πηλᾰμῠ́δε tṑ pēlamúde	τᾱ̀ς πηλᾰμῠ́δᾰς tā̀s pēlamúdas
Vocative	πηλᾰμῠ́ς pēlamús	πηλᾰμῠ́δε pēlamúde	πηλᾰμῠ́δες pēlamúdes
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension. Nominative singular -ς (-s) arose by reduction of the original cluster *-ds.

Latin: pēlamys
- ⇒ Latin: pēlamydulus
  - Catalan: bonítol
< Doric Greek: *πᾱλᾰμῠ́ς (*pālamús)
- Catalan: palomida
- Italian: palamita
- Spanish: palometa
  - English: permit

“πηλαμύς”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
πηλαμύς 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.
- tunny idem, page 901.

^ Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) “πηλαμύς, -ύδος [f.]”, in Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), volume II, with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 1185