tunny C2+ Topic:Food & Drink US /ˈtʌni/ UK /ˈtʌni/ See IPA manual Meanings 1 noun a tuna, especially a large food and game fish of the genus Thunnus The boats returned heavy with tunny from the deep waters. Thesaurus Synonyms 1 noun · a tuna, especially a large... tunatunafish Word family Related forms tuna Etymology AI details From Middle French thon and directly from Latin thunnus ('tunny, tuna'), from Ancient Greek thynnos ('tunny fish'), possibly of Semitic origin. thunnus Latin thynnos Ancient Greek View etymology graph -> Topics Food & Drink Word Formation & Derivatives External links Google Images Cambridge Dictionary Wiktionary # tunny **Type:** Word **Level:** C2+ **Part of speech:** noun **IPA (US):** /ˈtʌni/ **IPA (UK):** /ˈtʌni/ ## Meanings 1. a tuna, especially a large food and game fish of the genus Thunnus ## Examples - The boats returned heavy with tunny from the deep waters. ## Synonyms - tuna - tunafish ## Related Forms - tuna ## Roots and Affixes - Root: thunnus - Root: thynnos ## Etymology From Middle French thon and directly from Latin thunnus ('tunny, tuna'), from Ancient Greek thynnos ('tunny fish'), possibly of Semitic origin. ## AI Etymology Tunny comes from Middle French thon and directly from Latin thunnus ('tunny, tuna'), from Ancient Greek thynnos ('tunny fish'), possibly of Semitic origin. The historical chain includes Latin thunnus and Ancient Greek thynnos. The quoted older senses, "tunny, tuna" and "tunny fish", supply the semantic anchors for tunny. The formation is best read as borrowed: the word tunny carries its older form-history into a compact English lexical shape. In present English it is used as a noun, "a tuna, especially a large food and game fish of the genus Thunnus". Related English forms include tuna. The result is a noun whose etymology preserves both the older form and the later English specialization. ## Topics - Food & Drink - Word Formation & Derivatives markdown