πίνη
πίνη, pinna
πίνη [ῑ] (Antiph. 194.15) and πῖνα, ἡ,
- pinna, a long-shaped bivalve, with a silky beard or byssus, of which several species inhabit the Mediterranean, freq. mentioned as a delicacy in Com. Poets, e. g. Cratin. 8, Philyll. 13, cf. Arist. HA 528a24, 547b15, Isid.Char. 20, Opp. H. 2.187, Artem. 2.14.
- II pearl, acc. pl. πίνας UPZ 121.9 (ii B. C.); πείνας POxy. 1273.10 (iii A. D.), cf. ἀληθινόπινος, πινώτιον, πινάριον.—Written with one ν, UPZ l.c., POxy. l.c., and sts. in codd., cf. Cic. Fin. 3.63, ND 2.123, Plin. HN 9.115, 142; πῖνα Hdn.Gr. 2.570, Hsch., Choerob. in An.Ox. 2.250; the spelling πινν- in this word and its derivatives is freq. in codd., but is not found in Inscrr. or Papyri.
πίνη, and πίννη, ἡ,
- the pinna, a bivalve, with a silky beard, Com.