• θῦνος(thûnos) —in some manuscripts

FromPhoenician equivalent toUgaritic𐎚𐎐𐎐(tnn/⁠tunnanu⁠/) andHebrewתַּנִּין(tannīn,“water animal, sea monster”) and also attested in threetophet stelae at Hadrumetum in the name of the peninsula in front ofMonastir 𐤀𐤉𐤕𐤍𐤌(ʾytnm/⁠ʾī tunnīm⁠/, literally“Island of Tunnies”) referring to itsTonnara.

θῠ́ννος• (thŭ́nnos) m (genitiveθῠ́ννου);second declension

1. tuna(fish)

• “θύννος”, inLiddell & Scott (1940)A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “θύννος”, inLiddell & Scott (1889)An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• θύννος inBailly, 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, page12

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