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Latin pinax, from Ancient Greek πίναξ (pínax, “tablet”).

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pinax (plural pinaces or pinakes)

A tablet or register.
(by extension) A list or scheme inscribed on a tablet.
- 1669, Christopher Merrett, letter to Thomas Browne
  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 […]

pinax m (genitive pinacis); third declension

“pinax”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
pinax in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

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 # A [[tablet]] or [[register]].
 # {{lb|en|by extension}} A [[list]] or [[scheme]] [[inscribe]]d on a tablet.
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 #*: 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''' {{...}}