The corpus record — Latin

ligneus

ligneus · adj

of wood, wooden

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Where it lives

Appendix Vergiliana 1 · 36.9/10k
Themistocles 2 · 11.68/10k
De agri cultura 10 · 6.39/10k
Pescennius Niger 1 · 4.39/10k
De Bello Hispaniensi 2 · 3.3/10k
De Pallio 1 · 2.92/10k
Octavius 3 · 2.59/10k
Nero 2 · 2.56/10k
Bacchides 2 · 2.03/10k
Antoninus Heliogabalus 1 · 1.73/10k
Liber De Persona et Duabus Naturis Contra Eutychen Et Nestorium 1 · 1.71/10k
Elegiae 2 · 1.62/10k

Densest 12 of 49 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

lignĕus — Lewis & Short

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.

In the wild

ligneas Tertullian, De idolatria 4
ligneo Apuleius, Metamorphoses 9.23
Ligneam Plautus, Menaechmi 2.3
ligneum Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 28.8.p7
ligneis Columella, Res Rustica, Books I-IX 2.10.27
ligneas Ammianus Marcellinus, Res Gestae 21.12.9

6 of 123 attestations shown.

Where it came from

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