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lignĕus , a, um, adj. lignum,
I.of wood, wooden.
I. Lit.: “ponticulus,” Cic. Tusc. 5, 20, 59: “turres,” Caes. B. C. 3, 9: “materia,” wood, Cic. Inv. 2, 57, 170: “deus,” Tib. 1, 11, 20: “piscinas,” Plin. 34, 12, 32, § 123: “Fabii Maximi oppida,” Quint. 6, 3, 61: “custodia,” i. e. the stocks, Plaut. Poen. 5, 6, 28: “salus,” written on wooden tablets, id. Ps. 1, 1, 45.—
II. Transf.
A. Like wood, woody: “putamen,” Plin. 15, 22, 24, § 86: “semen (arboris),” id. 16, 26, 46, § 110.—
B. Like dry wood, dry: “nervosa et lignea (appellatur) dorcas,” Lucr. 4, 1161: “conjux,” Cat. 23, 6.
A Latin Dictionary. Founded on Andrews' edition of Freund's Latin dictionary. revised, enlarged, and in great part rewritten by. Charlton T. Lewis, Ph.D. and. Charles Short, LL.D. Oxford. Clarendon Press. 1879.

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  • Cross-references in general dictionaries from this page (8):
    • Plautus, Poenulus, 5.6
    • Caesar, Civil War, 3.9
    • Plautus, Pseudolus, 1.1
    • Lucretius, De Rerum Natura, 4.1161
    • Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia, 16.110
    • Cicero, Tusculanae Disputationes, 5.20
    • Quintilian, Institutio Oratoria, Book 6, 3.61
    • Cicero, De Inventione, 2.57
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