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πινακίς

Third declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration:

Principal Part: πινακίς πινακίδος

Structure: πινακιδ (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Etym.: = pina/kion

Sense

  1. tablets

Declension

Third 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

  • μετ’ αὐλῶν δ’ ὠρχοῦντο τὴν τοῦ κελευστοῦ καὶ τὴν καλουμένην πινακίδα. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 14, book 14, chapter 27 2:2)
  • Λαίδα λέγουσι τὴν Κορινθίαν ποτὲ Εὐριπίδην ἰδοῦσαν ἐν κήπῳ τινὶ πινακίδα καὶ γραφεῖον ἐξηρτημένον ἔχοντ’· (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 13, book 13, chapter 45 1:2)
  • ἐν δὲ τούτοισ καὶ πινακίδεσ ἦσαν τοῦ Τιβερίου, γράμματα καὶ λόγουσ ἔχουσαι τῆσ ταμιευτικῆσ ἀρχῆσ, ἃσ περὶ πολλοῦ ποιούμενοσ ἀπολαβεῖν, ἤδη τοῦ στρατοῦ προκεχωρηκότοσ ἀνέστρεψε πρὸσ τὴν πόλιν, ἔχων μεθ’ ἑαυτοῦ τρεῖσ ἢ τέτταρασ ἑταίρουσ, ἐκκαλέσασ δὲ τῶν Νομαντίνων τοὺσ ἄρχοντασ ἠξίου κομίσασθαι τὰσ δέλτουσ, ὡσ μὴ παράσχοι τοῖσ ἐχθροῖσ διαβολήν οὐκ ἔχων ἀπολογίσασθαι περὶ τῶν ᾠκονομημένων. (Plutarch, Tiberius Gracchus, chapter 6 1:2)
  • πρὶν ἐλθεῖν εἰσ τὴν Ῥώμην, ἀπήντησαν αὐτῷ παρὰ Καίσαροσ πινακίδεσ· (Epictetus, Works, book 1, 5:2)

Synonyms

  1. tablets

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

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