thunnus

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See also: Thunnus

Latin

Alternative forms

thynnus, tunnus

Etymology

Borrowed from Ancient Greek θύννος (thúnnos).

Pronunciation

(Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈtʰun.nus/,
(modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈtun.nus/,

Noun

thunnus m (genitive thunnī); second declension

tuna

Declension

Second-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	thunnus	thunnī
genitive	thunnī	thunnōrum
dative	thunnō	thunnīs
accusative	thunnum	thunnōs
ablative	thunnō	thunnīs
vocative	thunne	thunnī

Derived terms

*thunnina

Descendants

Descendants

Middle French: thon
- → English: tunny, thunny (archaic)
  - → Irish: tuinnín
- French: thon
  - → Romanian: ton
  - → Turkish: ton
Friulian: ton
Italian: tonno
Occitan: ton
→ Arabic: تُنّ (tunn)
- → Portuguese: atum
- → Spanish: atún
  - → English: tuna
    - → Arabic: تونة
    - → Welsh: tiwna
→ German: Thun, Thunfisch
→ Translingual: Thunnus

References

“thunnus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
“thunnus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
thunnus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

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