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                    "description": "tignum (noun N) : (\n* Masc. collat. form, plur. tigni, Liv. 44, 5, 4; but Weissenb. reads tigno) [root tek-; Gr. ἔτεκον, τίκτω, whence τέχνη, τέκτων, texo], building-stuff, building-materials (syn. trabs).\n* 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.\n* 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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