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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

  • Ἱκέσιοσ δὲ ἱστορεῖ οὐκ εἶναι εὐεκκρίτουσ κοιλίασ οὔτε πηλαμύδασ οὔτε τὰ ὡραῖα, τὰ δὲ νεώτερα τῶν θυννείων τὴν αὐτὴν ἀναλογίαν ἔχειν τοῖσ κυβίοισ μεγάλην τε εἶναι διαφορὰν πρὸσ πάντα τὰ ὡραῖα λεγόμενα, ὁμοίωσ δὲ λέγει καὶ τῶν Βυζαντίων ὡραίων πρὸσ τὰ ἀφ’ ἑτέρων τόπων λαμβανόμενα καὶ οὐ μόνον τῶν θυννείων, ἀλλὰ καὶ τῶν ἄλλων τῶν ἁλισκομένων ἐν Βυζαντίῳ. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 3, book 3, chapter 852)

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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