atún

During the Francoist dictatorship, labels on food products were not available in Catalan, leading to a situation where some speakers started to use Spanish atún for tuna as a food product and tonyina for the living fish, similar to the distinction between beef and cow in English.
Borrowed from Spanish atún, Arabic اَلتُّنّ (at-tunn, “tuna”), from Latin thunnus, from Ancient Greek θύννος (thúnnos), from θύνω (thúnō, “to rush, dart along”).

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [əˈtun]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [aˈtun]
• Rhymes: -atún

atún m (plural atunes)

1. (Castilianism, deprecated) tuna (in a can)

   Synonym: tonyina

• atum (reintegrationist)

• IPA^(key): /aˈtuŋ/ [aˈt̪uŋ]
• Rhymes: -uŋ
• Hyphenation: a‧tún

atún m (plural atúns)

1. tuna

   Synonym: túnido

Borrowed from Andalusian Arabic [Term?], from Arabic اَلتُّنّ (at-tunn, “tuna”), from Latin thunnus, from Ancient Greek θύννος (thúnnos), from θύνω (thúnō, “to rush, dart along”). Compare Portuguese atum. See also the related Spanish tonina.

• IPA^(key): /aˈtun/ [aˈt̪ũn]

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• Rhymes: -un
• Syllabification: a‧tún

atún m (plural atunes)

1. tuna (fish)
2. (colloquial) ignorant, stupid person

• “atún”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024