θύννος

Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

• θῦνος (thûnos)

Etymology

Borrowed from Phoenician equivalent to Ugaritic 𐎚𐎐𐎐 (tnn /⁠tunnanu⁠/) and Hebrew תַּנִּין (tannīn, “water animal, sea monster”), 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 • (thŭ́nnos) 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 thŭ́nnos	τὼ θῠ́ννω tṑ thŭ́nnō	οἱ θῠ́ννοι hoi thŭ́nnoi
Genitive	τοῦ θῠ́ννου toû thŭ́nnou	τοῖν θῠ́ννοιν toîn thŭ́nnoin	τῶν θῠ́ννων tôn thŭ́nnōn
Dative	τῷ θῠ́ννῳ tōî thŭ́nnōi	τοῖν θῠ́ννοιν toîn thŭ́nnoin	τοῖς θῠ́ννοις toîs thŭ́nnois
Accusative	τὸν θῠ́ννον tòn thŭ́nnon	τὼ θῠ́ννω tṑ thŭ́nnō	τοὺς θῠ́ννους toùs thŭ́nnous
Vocative	θῠ́ννε thŭ́nne	θῠ́ννω thŭ́nnō	θῠ́ννοι thŭ́nnoi
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Derived terms

• θυννεῖα (thunneîa, “tuna fishing”)
• θυννίτης (thunnítēs, “tuna fisher”)

Descendants

• → Classical Syriac: ܬܘܢܘܣ (tūnnōs)
• → Latin: thunnus, thynnus, tunnus (see there for further descendants)
• → Old Armenian: թիւնոս (tʻiwnos)
• → Old Georgian: თჳნასი (twinasi)

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
• Lewy, Heinrich (1895), Die semitischen Fremdwörter im Griechischen (in German), Berlin: R. Gaertner’s Verlagsbuchhandlung, pages 14–15
• Lipiński, Edward (2004), Itineraria Phoenicia (Orientalia Lovaniensia Analecta; 127), Leuven: Peeters Publishers, →ISBN, page 12