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Today it 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. Full definition →

Ancient Greek πίνακες

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Ancient Greek · derived fromπίνακες“tables”
English todayPinakes

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

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.