Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

• πηλᾰμῐ́ς ‎(pēlamís)

Noun

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

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

Declension

Derived terms

• πηλᾰμῠδείᾱ ‎(pēlamudeíā)
• πηλᾰμῠδεῖον ‎(pēlamudeîon)

Descendants

• Latin: pēlamys
• < Doric Greek: *πᾱλᾰμῠ́ς ‎(*pālamús)
  • Catalan: palomida
  • Italian: palamita
  • Spanish: palometa
    • English: permit

References

• 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, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • tunny idem, page 901.

1. ↑ 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, page 1185