thunnus

See also: Thunnus

Latin

Alternative forms

• thynnus, tunnus

Etymology

Borrowed from Ancient Greek θύννος (thúnnos).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈtʰun.nus/, [ˈt̪ʰʊnːʊs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈtun.nus/, [ˈt̪unːus]

Noun

thunnus m (genitive thunnī); second declension

1. 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

• Italo-Dalmatian:
  • Dalmatian:
    • → Serbo-Croatian: tunj, tuna / туњ, туна
      • → Macedonian: туна (tuna)
      • → Slovene: tun, túna
  • Italian: tonno
    • → English: tonno
    • → Greek: τόνος (tónos)
    • → Slovene: ton
  • Sicilian: tunnu
  • → Maltese: tonn
• Rhaeto-Romance:
  • Friulian: ton
• Gallo-Italic:
  • Ligurian: tónno
• Gallo-Romance:
  • Occitan: ton
    • →? Middle French: thon (or borrowed from Latin)
      • French: thon
        • → Romanian: ton
        • → Turkish: ton
      • → English: tunny, thunny (archaic)
        • → Irish: tuinnín

Borrowings:

• → Arabic: تُنّ (tunn)
  • → Galician: atún, atum
  • → Indonesian: tuna
  • → Portuguese: atum
  • → Spanish: atún
    • → Basque: atun
    • → Catalan: atún
    • → English: tuna
      • → Arabic: تونة
      • → Cantonese: 吞拿魚 / 吞拿鱼 (tan¹ naa⁴ jyu^4-2)
      • → Hebrew: טונה
      • → Japanese: ツナ
      • → Khmer: ធូណា (thuunaa)
      • → Lao: ທູນາ (thū nā)
      • → Malay: tuna
      • → Tagalog: tuna
      • → Thai: ทูน่า (tuu-nâa)
      • → Welsh: tiwna
    • → Tagalog: atun
    • → Tok Pisin: atun
• → Belarusian: туне́ц (tunjéc)
• → Czech: tuňák
• → Esperanto: tinuso
• → Georgian: თინუსი (tinusi)
• → Middle High German: (influenced by French)
  • → Danish: tunfisk, tun
  • → German: Thun, Thunfisch
  • → Hungarian: tonhal (partial calque)
  • → Icelandic: túnfiskur
  • → Norwegian Bokmål: tunfisk
  • → Norwegian Nynorsk: tunfisk
  • → Swedish: tonfisk
    • → Finnish: tonnikala (partial calque)
  • → Yiddish: טונפֿיש (tunfish)
• → Polish: tuńczyk
• → Russian: туне́ц (tunéc)
  • → Latvian: tuncis
  • →? Lithuanian: tunas
• → Slovak: tuniak
• → Translingual: Thunnus, ⇒ Thunnidae
  • → Galician: túnido
  • → Spanish: túnido
• → Ukrainian: туне́ць (tunécʹ)

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.