Lignum, ligni, n. g. Woode.Aridum componere lignum. Horat. Arida ligna explicare in flammas. Lucret. Artrita inter se ligna. Plin. Fissile. Virg.Durum.Virg. Inutile. Horat. Dolatum.Iuuen. Odoratum Virg.Fissum.Virg. Osseum, Vide OS, ossis. Ignem ex viridibus lignis atque humidis facere.Cic. Accendere lignum.Ouid.Consicere ligna ad fornacem, Vide CONFICIO.Reponere ligna super foco. Horat. To lay woode on the fire.Ligneus. Adiectiuum. Plaut.of wonde: treene: of timber.Signum ligneum.Cic.An image of timber or woode.Lignea turris.Liu. Equus ligneus. Propert. Materiam ligneam flamma vri posse necesse est.Cic.Ponticulus ligncus.Cic.A treen or timber bridge.Simulachra lignea, Ouid.Soleas ligneas in pedes inducere.Cic.To put on pattentes of woode.
Lewis and Short: Latin dictionary
lignum, i, n. [prob. root leg-, v. 2. lĕgo; that which is gathered, i. e. for firewood], wood (firewood. opp. to materia, timber for building, Dig. 32, 1, 55). I.Lit. (class. only in plur.): ligna neque fumosa erunt et ardebunt bene, Cato, R. R. 130: ligna et sarmenta circumdare, ignem subicere, Cic. Verr. 2, 1, 27, 69: ignem ex lignis viridibus atque umidis fieri jussit, id. ib. 2, 1, 17, 45: ligna super foco Large reponens, Hor. C. 1, 9, 5: ligna et virgas et carbones quibusdam videri esse in penu, Mas. Sab. ap. Gell. 4, 1, 22.—Prov.: in silvam ligna ferre, i. e. to perform useless labor, or, as we say in English, to carry coals to Newcastle, Hor. S. 1, 10, 34: lignorum aliquid posce, Juv. 7, 24.—B. In gen., timber, wood: hos lignum stabat in usus, Annosam si forte nucem dejecerat Eurus, i. e.
for making tables
, Juv. 11, 118.—II.Transf.A. That which is made of wood, a writing-tablet: vana supervacui dicunt chirographa ligni, Juv. 13, 137; 16, 41; a plank: ventis animam committe, dolato confisus ligno, id. 12, 58.—B. The hard part of fruit, the shell (of a nut), or the stone or kernel (of cherries, plums, etc.): bacarum intus lignum, Plin. 15, 28, 34, 111; 15, 3, 3, 10: lignum in pomo, id. 13, 4, 9, 40; of grape-stones, id. 17, 21, 35, 162.— C.A fault in table-tops, where the grain of the wood is not curly, but straight, Plin. 13, 15, 30, 98.—D. (Poet. and late Lat.) A tree, Verg. A. 12, 767; Hor. S. 1, 8, 1; id. C. 2, 13, 11: lignum pomiferum, Vulg. Gen. 1, 11: lignum scientiae boni et mali, id. ib. 2, 9: lignum vitae, id. Apoc. 2, 9.—E.A staff, club (eccl. Lat.): cum gladiis et lignis, Vulg. Marc. 14, 43 and 48.
