πηλαμύς

Ancient Greek

Likely from Pre-Greek.^[1]

πηλᾰμῠ́ς • (pēlămŭ́s) f (genitive πηλᾰμῠ́δος); third declension

young tunny
- 384 BCE – 322 BCE, Aristotle, History of Animals 571a11
- 497 BCE – 405 BCE, Sophocles, Fragments 503
- Oppian, Halieutica 1.113

Third declension of ἡ πηλᾰμῠ́ς; τῆς πηλᾰμῠ́δος (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ πηλᾰμῠ́ς hē pēlămŭ́s	τὼ πηλᾰμῠ́δε tṑ pēlămŭ́de	αἱ πηλᾰμῠ́δες hai pēlămŭ́des
Genitive	τῆς πηλᾰμῠ́δος tês pēlămŭ́dos	τοῖν πηλᾰμῠ́δοιν toîn pēlămŭ́doin	τῶν πηλᾰμῠ́δων tôn pēlămŭ́dōn
Dative	τῇ πηλᾰμῠ́δῐ tēî pēlămŭ́dĭ	τοῖν πηλᾰμῠ́δοιν toîn pēlămŭ́doin	ταῖς πηλᾰμῠ́σῐ / πηλᾰμῠ́σῐν taîs pēlămŭ́sĭ(n)
Accusative	τὴν πηλᾰμῠ́δᾰ tḕn pēlămŭ́dă	τὼ πηλᾰμῠ́δε tṑ pēlămŭ́de	τᾱ̀ς πηλᾰμῠ́δᾰς tā̀s pēlămŭ́dăs
Vocative	πηλᾰμῠ́ς pēlămŭ́s	πηλᾰμῠ́δε pēlămŭ́de	πηλᾰμῠ́δες pēlămŭ́des
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension. Nominative singular -ς (-s) arose by reduction of the original cluster *-ds.

Latin: pēlamys
- ⇒ Latin: pēlamydulus
  - Catalan: bonítol
< Doric Greek: *πᾱλᾰμῠ́ς (*pālămŭ́s)
- Catalan: palomida
- Italian: palamita
- Spanish: palometa
  - English: permit

“πηλαμύς”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
πηλαμύς in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎^[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
- tunny idem, page 901.

^ Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) “πηλαμύς, -ύδος [f.]”, in Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), volume II, with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 1185