Translingual

Proper noun

Thunnus m

1. A taxonomic genus within the family Scombridae – the tuna.

Hypernyms

• (genus): Vertebrata - subphylum; Gnathostomata - infraphylum; Osteichthyes - superclass; Actinopterygii - class; Neopterygii - subclass; Teleostei - infraclass; Acanthopterygii - superorder; Perciformes - order; Scombroidei - suborder; Scombridae - family; Scombrinae - subfamily

Hyponyms

• (genus): Thunnus alalunga, Thunnus albacares, Thunnus atlanticus, Thunnus maccoyii, Thunnus obesus, Thunnus orientalis, Thunnus thynnus, Thunnus tonggol - species

Latin

Alternative forms

• thynnus, tunnus

Noun

thunnus m ‎(genitive thunnī); second declension

1. tuna

Inflection

Second declension.

Descendants

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
• Félix Gaffiot (1934), “thunnus”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.