lignum

== English == === Etymology 1 === Borrowed from Latin lignum (“wood”). ==== Noun ==== lignum (uncountable) (botany) Dead wood, typically in the context of a substrate for lichens. === Etymology 2 === Contraction of polygonum (“plant of the family Polygonaceae”). ==== Noun ==== lignum (countable and uncountable, plural lignums) A perennial shrub, Duma florulenta, native to semiarid areas of inland Australia. Land covered by lignum. ===== Derived terms ===== ===== Related terms ===== ==== References ==== === Anagrams === muling == Latin == === Etymology === From Proto-Italic *legnom, from Proto-Indo-European *leǵ-no-m (“that which is collected”), from *leǵ- (“to collect”), with the Italic form interpreted as "wood collected for firemaking". An alternative derivation from Proto-Indo-European *legʰ- (“to lie”), and associated interpretation as "stray wood", seems equally possible, phonetically and semantically. === Pronunciation === (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [ˈlɪŋ.nũː] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [ˈliɲ.ɲum] === Noun === lignum n (genitive lignī); second declension firewood (later Latin) wood tissue tree ==== Declension ==== Second-declension noun (neuter). ==== Derived terms ==== ==== Descendants ==== Several forms inherited from the plural ligna, reinterpreted as a feminine singular noun. === References === “lignum”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press “lignum”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers "lignum", in Charles du Fresne du Cange, Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887) “lignum”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.