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English
Etymology
From Latin pinax, from Ancient Greek πίναξ (pínax, “tablet”).
Pronunciation
Noun
pinax (plural pinaces or pinakes)
- A tablet or register.
- (by extension) A list or scheme inscribed on a tablet.
1669, Christopher Merrett, letter to Thomas Browne:Many of the lupus piscis I have seen, and have bin informed by the king's fishmonger they are taken on our coast, but was not satisfied for some reasons of his relation soe as to enter it into my Pinax […]
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Italian
Etymology
Transliteration of Ancient Greek πίναξ (pínax). Doublet of pinace.
Pronunciation
Noun
pinax m (plural pinakes)
- (historical, Ancient Greece) pinax (tablet)
- (archaeology, in the plural) votive clay tablet with embossings
Further reading
- pinax in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
Latin
Etymology
From Ancient Greek πίναξ (pínax).
Pronunciation
Noun
pinax m (genitive pinacis); third declension
- A picture on a wooden tablet
Declension
Third-declension noun.
References
- “pinax”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- pinax in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.