Latin

Alternative forms

• pēlamis

Noun

pēlamys f ‎(genitive pēlamydis); third declension

1. a young tunny (a.k.a. tuna) before it reaches one year of age (thereafter called thynnus)
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Declension

Third declension.

References

• pēlămis…and pēlamys in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• pelamys in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• Félix Gaffiot (1934), “pēlămis…et pēlămy̆s”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette, page 1,133/1.
• “pēlamys…⁓is” on page 1,319/3 of the Oxford Latin Dictionary (1st ed., 1968–82)