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πινάκιον

Second declension Noun; Neuter Transliteration:

Principal Part: πινάκιον πινάκιου

Structure: πινακι (Stem) + ον (Ending)

Etym.: pi/nac의 지소사

Sense

  1. a small tablet, tablets, a memorandum book
  2. a tablet for painting upon

Declension

Second declension

The inflection forms above were generated by rules and some usages of them were not attested.

Due to a bug of system, some forms may display wrong accents.

Examples

  • οἱ δὲ νῦν πλούσιοι πρὸσ ἐμὲ Ἶροι δηλαδὴ ἅπαντεσ, καὶ οὐκέτι το ἀργυροῦν πινάκιον ἢ τὸν σκύφον ἐπιδείξεται Διόνικοσ ἐν τῇ πομπῇ, καὶ μάλιστα ἐπειδὰν ὁρᾷ τοὺσ οἰκέτασ τοὺσ ἐμοὺσ ἀργύρῳ τοσούτῳ χρωμένουσ· (Lucian, 42:1)
  • δὲ οὐχ ἓν ἑκάστῳ πινάκιον, ἀλλ’ Ἀρισταινέτῳ μὲν καὶ Εὐκρίτῳ ἐπὶ μιᾶσ τραπέζησ κοινόν, καὶ τὰ παρ’ αὑτῷ ἑκάτερον ἐχρῆν λαβεῖν Ζηνοθέμιδι δὲ τῷ Στωϊκῷ καὶ Ἕρμωνι τῷ Ἐπικουρείῳ ὁμοίωσ κοινὸν καὶ τούτοισ· (Lucian, Symposium, (no name) 38:2)
  • Πρὸ πολλοῦ τῆσ ἑορτῆσ οἱ πλούσιοι γραφόντων κὲν ἐσ πινάκιον ἑκάστου τῶν φίλων τοὔνομα, ἐχόντων δὲ καὶ ἀργύριον ἕτοιμον ὅσον τῶν κατ̓ ἔτοσ προσιόντων τὸ δέκατον καὶ ἐσθῆτα τῆσ οὔσησ τὴν περιττὴν καὶ ὅση παχυτέρα ἢ κατ̓ αὐτοὺσ κατασκευή, καὶ τῶν ἀργυρῶν οὐκ ὀλίγα. (Lucian, Saturnalia, 1:1)
  • εἶτα περὶ δείλην ὀψίαν ἀναγινωσκέσθω μὲν σφίσι τὸ φιλικὸν ἐκεῖνο πινάκιον. (Lucian, Saturnalia, 1:5)
  • δότε μοι ξίφοσ ὅπωσ τάχιστ’, ἢ πινάκιον τιμητικόν. (Aristophanes, Wasps, Prologue 4:38)
  • προὔκειτο δὲ ἐν μέσῳ καὶ πινάκιόν τισι τῶν ἀπὸ γεωμετρίασ σχημάτων καταγεγραμμένον καὶ σφαῖρα καλάμου πρὸσ τὸ τοῦ παντὸσ μίμημα ὡσ ἐδόκει πεποιημένη. (Lucian, Nigrinus, Nigrinou Fiaosofia 2:6)

Synonyms

  1. a small tablet

  2. a tablet for painting upon

Related

Source: Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. "A Greek-English Lexicon". revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones.

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