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πινακοθήκη

First declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration:

Principal Part: πινακοθήκη

Structure: πινακοθηκ (Stem) + η (Ending)

Sense

  1. a picture-gallery

Declension

First 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

  • ἐπ’ ἀριστερᾷ δὲ τὸ προάστειον τὸ πρὸσ τῷ Ἡραίῳ καὶ ὁ Ἴμβρασοσ ποταμὸσ καὶ τὸ Ἡραῖον, ἀρχαῖον ἱερὸν καὶ νεὼσ μέγασ, ὃσ νῦν πινακοθήκη ἐστί· (Strabo, Geography, Book 14, chapter 1 22:6)
  • χωρὶσ δὲ τοῦ πλήθουσ τῶν ἐνταῦθα κειμένων πινάκων ἄλλαι πινακοθῆκαι καὶ ναί̈σκοι τινέσ εἰσι πλήρεισ τῶν ἀρχαίων τεχνῶν· (Strabo, Geography, Book 14, chapter 1 22:7)

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

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