tuno

• Tuno, TuNO

Blend of tuna +‎ no, from the trademark TUNO produced by Loma Linda Foods.

tuno (uncountable)

1. A vegan or vegetarian tuna fish substitute, usually soy or chickpea-based
   • 1987, Faye Hammel, Sylvan Levey, chapter 5, in Frommer's Hawaii on $45 a day, Prentice Hall Press, pages 129-130:

     Not only are there “unreal” vegetarian sandwiches like tofu burger, Vigor burger, wham salad (like ham), and tuno salad (like tuna), all bulging with sprouts, shaved carrots, and sunflower seeds, and only costing $1.95 to $2.95, but there are now “real” sandwiches, still health-oriented, like bull burger, which has less than 2% fat, and bacon and pastrami sandwiches with no nitrates ($2.50 to $2.95).

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *tunu, from Proto-Austronesian *CuNuh.

tunó

1. to roast in or over a fire (of meat, fish, bananas or root foods)

• Headland, Thomas N.; Headland, Janet D. (1974), A Dumagat (Casiguran) - English Dictionary (Pacific Linguistics. Series C-28)‎^[1], Canberra: Pacific Linguistics, Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, The Australian National University, →ISBN, page 168

• Hyphenation: tu‧no

tuno

1. coconut milk

• tinunoan

• tuon

• IPA^(key): /ˈtuno/
• Rhymes: -uno
• Hyphenation: tu‧no

tuno (accusative singular tunon, plural tunoj, accusative plural tunojn)

1. ton (US), tonne (UK)

• IPA^(key): /ˈtuno/

tuno (plural tuni)

1. ton (US), tonne (UK)

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *tunu, from Proto-Austronesian *CuNuh.

túno

1. to roast

• Vanoverbergh, Morice (1972), “Isneg-English Vocabulary”, in Oceanic Linguistics Special Publications‎^[2], number 11, Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press, →JSTOR, page 594

Compare Tagalog tunaw.

• IPA^(key): /tʊˈno/ [tʊˈno]
• Hyphenation: tu‧no

tuno

1. melted

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

tuno

1. first-person singular present indicative of tunar

Borrowed from Spanish tuno.

tuno m (plural tunos)

1. a member of a tuna

• IPA^(key): /ˈtuno/ [ˈt̪u.no]
• Rhymes: -uno
• Syllabification: tu‧no

tuno m (plural tunos, feminine tuna, feminine plural tunas)

1. member of a tuna

tuno

1. first-person singular present indicative of tunar

• “tuno”, 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