θύννος

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
 

Noun

θῠ́ννος • (thúnnos) m (genitive θῠ́ννου); second declension

  1. tuna (fish)

Inflection
Second declension of ὁ θῠ́ννος; τοῦ θῠ́ννου (Attic)
Case / # Singular Dual Plural
Nominative ὁ θῠ́ννος
ho thúnnos		 τὼ θῠ́ννω
tṑ thúnnō		 οἱ θῠ́ννοι
hoi thúnnoi
Genitive τοῦ θῠ́ννου
toû thúnnou		 τοῖν θῠ́ννοιν
toîn thúnnoin		 τῶν θῠ́ννων
tôn thúnnōn
Dative τῷ θῠ́ννῳ
tôi thúnnōi		 τοῖν θῠ́ννοιν
toîn thúnnoin		 τοῖς θῠ́ννοις
toîs thúnnois
Accusative τὸν θῠ́ννον
tòn thúnnon		 τὼ θῠ́ννω
tṑ thúnnō		 τοὺς θῠ́ννους
toùs thúnnous
Vocative θῠ́ννε
thúnne		 θῠ́ννω
thúnnō		 θῠ́ννοι
thúnnoi
Notes:
  • This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

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
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