pinacoteca
Catalan
Noun
pinacoteca f (plural pinacoteques)
- art gallery
- 2002, Albert Sánchez Piñol, chapter 11, in La pell freda, La Campana:
- Però, com sempre, es mirava en Batís al balcó, els trets, el meu plor, l'assalt al far, amb la distància que un quadre de motius bèl·lics genera en l'espectador de pinacoteca.
- But, as usual, she watched Batís on the balcony, the shots, my weeping, and the assault on the lighthouse with a distance which a painting with warlike motifs would provoke in an art gallery visitor.
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Italian
Etymology
From Latin pinacotheca, from Ancient Greek πινακοθήκη (pinakothḗkē).
Spanish
Etymology
From Latin pinacothēca, from Ancient Greek πινακοθήκη (pinakothḗkē, “picture gallery”, literally “tablet box”), from πίναξ (pínax, “board, plank, tablet”) + θήκη (thḗkē, “box, chest”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /pinakoˈteka/, [pinakoˈt̪eka]
Synonyms
Further reading
- “pinacoteca” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.
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