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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

  • "ἔτνοσ, φακῆ, τάριχοσ, ἰχθύσ, γογγυλίσ, σκόροδον, κρέασ, θύννειον, ἅλμη, κρόμμυον, σκόλυμοσ, ἐλαία, κάππαρισ, βολβόσ, μύκησ. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 14, book 14, chapter 607)
  • τὸ δὲ θύννειον, φησί, γίνεται ἐκ τῆσ μείζονοσ πηλαμύδοσ, ὧν τὸ μικρὸν ἀναλογεῖ τῷ κυβίῳ, ἐξ οὗ γένουσ ἐστὶ καὶ τὸ ὡραῖον. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 3, book 3, chapter 92 1:2)

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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