The corpus record — Latin

tignum

piece of timber, building-wood

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Where it lives

Griphus Ternarii numeri 1 · 9.35/10k
De Architectura 39 · 6.76/10k
De Arte Poetica liber 1 · 3.24/10k
De Bello Civili 7 · 2.17/10k
de consulatu Stilichonis 1 · 1.32/10k
De agri cultura 2 · 1.28/10k
Mostellaria 1 · 1.04/10k
Epistulae 1 · 1.01/10k
Ab urbe condita libri, erklärt von M. Weissenborn, books 35-38 - 36 1 · 0.88/10k
De Rerum Natura 4 · 0.82/10k
Ab urbe condita libri, erklärt von M. Weissenborn, books 43-44 - 44 1 · 0.79/10k
Elegiae 2 · 0.79/10k

Densest 12 of 25 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

1. tignum — de Vaan

tignum 'piece of timber, building-wood' [n. o] (Lex XII+) Derivatives: tigillum 'small plank' (PL+)* Pit *teg/k-no- 'plank, timber'. tilia PIE *(s)teg-no- 'covering' or *te£-no- 'product5. Lat tignum probably represents *tegno-. The derived dim. tigillum could phonetically reflect *tegno-lo- if the raising of *e" in front of a velar nasal preceded vowel reduction in non-initial syllable (with the inverse chronology, … — [de Vaan, s.v. tignum, p. 633]

2. tignum — Lewis & Short

tignum, i, n. (

I masc. collat. form, plur. tigni, Liv. 44, 5, 4; but Weissenb. reads tigno) [root tek-; Gr. e)/tekon, ti/ktw, whence te/xnh, te/ktwn, texo], building-stuff, building-materials (syn. trabs).

I In gen. (ante-class. and in jurid. lang.): tigni appellatione in lege duodecim tabularum omne genus materiae, ex quā aedificia constant, significatur, Dig. 50, 16, 62; cf.: tigni autem appellatione continetur omnis materia, ex quā aedificium constat vineaeque necessaria. Unde quidam aiunt, tegulam quoque et lapidem et testam ceteraque, si qua aedificiis sunt utilia (tigna enim a tegendo dicta sunt) hoc amplius et calcem et harenam tignorum appellatione contineri, ib. 47, 3 (de tigno juncto), 1.—

II In partic., a piece or stick of timber, a trunk of a tree, a log, beam (class.): venit imber ... Tigna putrefacit, Plaut. Most. 1, 2, 31: tigna trabesque, Lucr. 2, 192; so, with trabes, id. 6, 241: supra eum locum duo tigna transversa injecerunt, Caes. B. C. 2, 9: et levia radere tigna Et terebrare etiam ac pertundere perque forare, Lucr. 5, 1266: tigna bina sesquipedalia in flumen defixerat, Caes. B. G. 4, 17; cf. id. B. C. 2, 10; 2, 15: torquet ingens machina tignum, Hor. Ep. 2, 2, 73; id. A. P. 279: summo quae pendet aranea tigno, Ov. M. 4, 179; 8, 648; Sen. Ep. 120, 7: cava, i. e. ships, Prop. 4 (5), 6, 50.

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Where it came from

de Vaan, Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Brill 2008) Treated in de Vaan, Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Brill 2008) s.v. tignum (scan pp. 633-634; entry #1812). Root candidates: *tegno-, *tek-, *teks-.
Ernout-Meillet, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue latine Treated in Ernout-Meillet, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue latine s.v. tignum (scan p. 715; entry #11868).

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