What’s the plural of “tuna”?
The plural of tuna is tuna. Sometimes tunas is accepted as the plural of tuna. This is the case when referring to a collection of tuna, or to numerous types of species of tunas within the tuna family.
What’s the singular of tuna?
Tuna is singular.
What does the word tuna mean?
The word tuna is understood as:
Any of numerous large vigorous scombroid food and sport fishes (such as an albacore or a bluefin tuna).
Nouns that stay the same singular and plural
Some nouns show no change between their plural and singular forms. See the chart of the following nouns that do not change to demonstrate singular or plural forms:
The word tuna used in sentences
1. Eat oily fish such as sardines, salmon, and tuna at least twice a week.
2. The water which surrounds the island is a rich fishing ground for tuna and mackerel.
3. Rolling up his sleeves, handling tuna on the factory conveyor belt and urging workers on are not beneath this boss.
4. The figure is further halved in canned tuna.
5. Instead, tuna are taken from the wild, enclosed in nets and dragged to shore where they are corralled in pens and fattened on an oil-rich diet.
Origin of the word tuna
From etymology online on tuna (n.):
1881, from American Spanish (California) tuna, from Spanish atun, from Arabic tun, borrowed, probably in Spain, from Latin thunnus “tunny”.
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