Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

pinakes

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: pinakes
IPA

13

Scrabble Score

7

Letters

1

Syllables

7

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

plural of pinax

name

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.

Etymology

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

Origin

Source language: Ancient Greek

Word Breakdown

Root: πίνακες

Inflected Forms

the Pinakes (canonical, plural)

Questions

What does pinakes mean?: plural of pinax
Where does pinakes come from?: It is traced to Ancient Greek.

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