TBotNS - Pinakotheken

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= Sirius Fiction booklets on Gene Wolfe, John Crowley hurt books eBay auction coming soon http://www.siriusfiction.com/