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Ancient Greek
Etymology
From πίναξ (pínax, “board, tablet”) + -ιον (-ion, diminutive suffix).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /pi.ná.ki.on/ → /piˈna.ci.on/ → /piˈna.ci.on/
Noun
πῐνᾰ́κῐον • (pinákion) n (genitive πῐνᾰκῐ́ου); second declension
- small tablet on which the dicasts wrote their verdict
- notice board on which laws and decrees were written
- tablet, memorandum book
- votive tablet
- tablet for painting upon
- small plate or dish
- astronomical table
Inflection
Descendants
Further reading
- “πινάκιον”, in ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch and Chinese), University of Chicago, 2011
- “πινάκιον”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- πινάκιον in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette