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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
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative πινάκιον πινακίω πινάκια
Genitive πινακίου πινακίοιν πινακίων
Dative πινακίῳ πινακίοιν πινακίοις
Accusative πινάκιον πινακίω πινάκια
Vocative πινάκιον πινακίω πινάκια

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

  • πλὴν ὅσον ἐκείνη μὲν ἐν μικρῷ πινακίῳ ἐγέγραπτο· (Lucian, Imagines, (no name) 17:5)
  • ἐπειδὰν δ’ ἐμβάλωσιν οἱ δικασταὶ τὰ πινάκια εἰσ τὸ κιβώτιον, ἐφ’ οὗ ἂν ᾖ ἐπιγεγραμμένον τὸ γράμμα τὸ αὐτὸ ὅπερ ἐπὶ τῷ πινακίῳ ἐστὶν αὐτῷ τῶν στοιχείων, διασείσαντοσ τοῦ ὑπηρέτου ἕλκει ὁ θεσμοθέτησ ἐξ ἑκάστου τοῦ κιβωτίου πινάκιον ἕν. (Aristotle, Athenian Constitution, work Ath. Pol., chapter 64 1:7)
  • δεῖ δ’ ὥσπερ ἐν πινακίῳ χρωμάτων ἐν τῇ ψυχῇ τῶν πραγμάτων τὰ φαιδρὰ καὶ λαμπρὰ προβάλλοντασ, ἀποκρύπτειν τὰ σκυθρωπὰ καὶ πιέζειν ἐξαλεῖψαι γὰρ οὐκ ἔστι παντάπασιν οὐδ’ ἀπαλλαγῆναι. (Plutarch, De tranquilitate animi, section 15 1:1)
  • δεῖ δ’ ὥσπερ ἐν πινακίῳ χρωμάτων ἐν τῇ ψυχῇ τῶν πραγμάτων τὰ φαιδρὰ καὶ λαμπρὰ προβάλλοντασ, ἀποκρύπτειν τὰ σκυθρωπὰ καὶ πιέζειν· (Plutarch, De tranquilitate animi, section 15 3:1)

Synonyms

  1. a small tablet

  2. a tablet for painting upon

Related

Similar forms

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

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