TBotNS - Pinakotheken
The Urth list — 2 messages, 2 voices, 07 Nov 2002
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Fr Kipling Cooper — 07 Nov 2002, 05:36

Book I, chapter v "and the pinakotheken, with their great hallway topped
with a vaulted roof of window-pirced brick."

After much digging it would seem that pinakothek=picture gallery in
German, but wouldn't the suffix denote the plural?  or perhaps 'gallery'
as in chamber, and thus many chambers off a single great hallway?

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Michael Andre-Driussi — 07 Nov 2002, 14:39
  follows, by subject match Fr Kipling Cooper

> Kipling wrote:
> Book I, chapter v "and the pinakotheken, with their great hallway topped
> with a vaulted roof of window-pirced brick."
> 
> After much digging it would seem that pinakothek=picture gallery in
> German, but wouldn't the suffix denote the plural?  or perhaps 'gallery'
> as in chamber, and thus many chambers off a single great hallway?

The OED has nothing; THE NEW YORK TIMES EVERYDAT DICTIONARY OF
MISUNDERSTOOD, MISUSED, AND MISPRONOUNCED WORDS has nothing; MRS. BYRNE'S
DICTIONARY has "pinacotheca" [note spelling] as "a picture gallery";
ROGET'S INTERNATIONAL THESAURUS lists pinakotheke and pinacotheca in group
"museum . . . picture gallery."

I was going to promote the article "Words Weird and Wonderful" in Wolfe's
CASTLE OF THE OTTER (collected in Wolfe's CASTLE OF DAYS), but it doesn't
have that word in it.  I promote it anyway!  (LEXICON URTHUS only says it
is a picture gallery, fwiw.)

There used to be an online wordlist of New Sun words, probably more than
one iirc.  Another resource.

=mantis=


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