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pinakes

pinakes is the plural of pinax.

Meaning of pinax

Noun

pinax (plural pinaces or pinakes)

  1. A tablet or register.
  2. (broadly) A list or scheme inscribed on a tablet.
    • Many of the lupus piscis I have seen, and have bin informed by the king's fishmonger they are taken on our coast, but was not satisfied for some reasons of his relation soe as to enter it into my Pinax […]1669, Christopher Merrett, letter to Thomas Browne

Proper noun capitalized: Pinakes

the Pinakes pl (plural only)

  1. (plural, plural-only, singular) A lost bibliographic work composed by Callimachus (310/305–240 BCE) that is popularly considered to be the first library catalog in the West; its contents were based upon the holdings of the Library of Alexandria during Callimachus's tenure there during the third century BCE.

Origin of pinakes

By proprialization from Ancient Greek πίνακες (pínakes, “tables”), plural of πίναξ (pínax, “table”); thus, "the Tables". By surface analysis, by proprialization from pinakes.

Questions about pinakes

What does pinakes mean?
Pinakes means a lost bibliographic work composed by Callimachus (310/305–240 BCE) that is popularly considered to be the first library catalog in the West; its contents were based upon the holdings of the Library of Alexandria during Callimachus's tenure there during the third century BCE.
What is pinakes the plural of?
Pinakes is the plural of pinax.
What part of speech is pinakes?
Pinakes is a proper noun.

Words near pinakes in the dictionary

  1. Pinagsabangan I
  2. Pinagsabangan II
  3. Pinagtongulan
  4. Pinaka
  5. pinakbet
  6. pinakes
  7. pinakia
  8. pinakiolite
  9. pinakion
  10. pinakoid
  11. pinakoidal

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Adapted from Wiktionary: pinakes (page history and authors); Pinakes (page history and authors); pinax (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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