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θύννειος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: θύννειος θύννειᾱ θύννειον

Structure: θυννει (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: qu/nnos

Sense

  1. of the tunny-fish, its flesh

Examples

  • ὅστισ εὐθὺσ θύννεια θερμὰ καταφαγών, κᾆτ’ ἐπιπιὼν ἀκράτου οἴνου χοᾶ κασαλβάσω τοὺσ ἐν Πύλῳ στρατηγούσ. (Aristotle, Agon, epirrheme23)
  • ἦν δὲ τὸ πάθοσ γέλοιον, οἴμοι, τέτταρασ χαλκοῦσ ἔχων ἄνθρωποσ, ἐγχέλεισ ὁρῶν, θύννεια, νάρκασ, καράβουσ ᾑμωδία. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 6, book 6, chapter 394)
  • Διοκλῆσ μὲν ὁ Καρύστιοσ ἐν τοῖσ Ὑγιεινοῖσ ἐπιγραφομένοισ τῶν ταρίχων φησὶ τῶν ἀπιμέλων κράτιστα εἶναι τὰ ὡραῖα, τῶν δὲ πιόνων τὰ θύννεια. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 3, book 3, chapter 851)
  • κράτιστα δὲ τῶν μὲν ἀπιόνων κύβια καὶ ὡραῖα καὶ τὰ τούτοισ ὅμοια γένη, τῶν δὲ πιόνων τὰ θύννεια καὶ κορδύλεια. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 3, book 3, chapter 923)

Synonyms

  1. of the tunny-fish

Related

Source: Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. "A Greek-English Lexicon". revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones.

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