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

 

• IPA^(key): /tʰýn.nos/ → /ˈθyn.nos/ → /ˈθi.nos/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /tʰýn.nos/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈtʰyn.nos/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈθyn.nos/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈθyn.nos/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈθi.nos/

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

• Latin: thunnus, thynnus, tunnus
  • → Arabic: تُنّ (tunn)
    • → Portuguese: atum
    • → Spanish: atún
      • → English: tuna
        • → Welsh: tiwna
  • Catalan: tonyina
  • French: thon
    • → Romanian: ton
    • → Turkish: ton
  • Friulian: ton
  • Galician: toniña
  • → German: Thun(fisch)
  • → Irish: tuinnín
  • Italian: tonno
  • Occitan: ton
  • Portuguese: toninha
  • Sicilian: tunnu, tunnina
  • Spanish: tonina, toñina
  • → Translingual: Thunnus

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^[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • tunny idem, page 901.
• 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