ligno
Dictionary entries
- Entry →lignum, ligni:
Neuter · Noun · 2nd declension
- Frequency:
- Frequent
- Dictionary:
- Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
wood; firewood; trunk/stump/tree; timber; beam/post; wood (material); stave;; wood thing/part, writing-tablet, spear shaft; stone (of fruit), shell (nut);; the Cross; staff, cudgel, club; gallows/stocks; [~ pedaneum => altar step];
abl. sg.dat. sg.
Examples
Casina
Titus Maccius Plautus
"...uilico, Seruo frugi? atque ubi illi bene sit ligno, aqua calida? cibo, Vestimentis? ubique educat pueros quos pariat..."Liber X
Aulus Gellius
"...humanam fidem: caput et collum chamaeleontis si uratur ligno, quod appellatur "robur", imbres et tonitrus fieri derepente, idque..."Satura XII
Decimus Iunius Iuvenalis (Juvenal) from SATVRAE
"...nunc et uentis animam committe dolato confisus ligno, digitis a morte remotus quattuor aut septem, si sit latissima..."Liber VI
Marcus Valerius Martialis (Martial)
"...ulmo, nec quae stat rigida supina uena de ligno mihi quolibet columna est, sed uiua generata de cupressu..."Liber II
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from QUAESTIONES NATURALES
"...argentum ; manente uagina gladius ipse liquescit, et inuiolato ligno circa pila ferrum omne destillat ; stat fracto dolio uinum..."Medea
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from FABULAE
"...auris, dubioque secans aequora cursu potuit tenui fidere ligno inter uitae mortisque uices nimium gracili limite ducto. Nondum..."
Liber Sextus
Gaius Valerius Flaccus from ARGONAVTICA
"...corticis armat aequaque nec ferro brevior nec rumpia ligno. nec procul albentes gemina ferit aclyde parmas hiberni..."Truculentus
Titus Maccius Plautus
"...veteris vini largiter ut dies noctesque potet, opust ligno, opust carbonibus, fasciis opus est, pulvinis, cunis, incunabulis, oleo..."