A.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.HA528a24, 547b15, Isid.Char.20, Opp. H.2.187, Artem.2.14.
II. pearl, acc. pl. “πίνας” UPZ121.9 (ii B. C.); “πείνας” POxy.1273.10 (iii A. D.), cf. ἀληθινόπινος, πινώτιον, πινάριον.—Written with one ν, UPZl.c., POxy.l.c., and sts. in codd., cf. Cic. Fin.3.63, ND2.123, Plin.HN9.115, 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.
