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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

  • τῷ βουλομένῳ δ’ ἐξέστω τῶν πινακίων ὅτιπερ ἂν φαίνηται μὴ κατὰ νοῦν αὑτῷ γεγραμμένον ἀνελόντα εἰσ ἀγορὰν θεῖναι μὴ ἔλαττον τριάκοντα ἡμερῶν. (Plato, Laws, book 6 16:1)
  • τὰ δὲ τῶν πινακίων κριθέντα ἐν πρώτοισ μέχρι τριακοσίων δεῖξαι τοὺσ ἄρχοντασ ἰδεῖν πάσῃ τῇ πόλει, τὴν δὲ πόλιν ὡσαύτωσ ἐκ τούτων φέρειν πάλιν ὃν ἂν ἕκαστοσ βούληται, τοὺσ δὲ τὸ δεύτερον ἐξ αὐτῶν προκριθέντασ ἑκατὸν δεῖξαι πάλιν ἅπασιν. (Plato, Laws, book 6 16:2)

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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