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tigna

tigna is a Latin form of tignum, meaning “tree trunk, log, stick, post, beam; piece of timber; building materials”. It is the nominative plural neuter noun or vocative plural neuter noun or accusative plural neuter noun.

Found 28 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Caesar, De Bello Gallico 4.17.3: Rationem pontis hanc instituit. Tigna bina sesquipedalia paulum ab imo praeacuta dimensa ad altitudinem fluminis intervallo pedum duorum inter se iungebat.

Caesar, De Bello Civili 2.9: … r contignationem, quantum tectum plutei ac vinearum passum est, laterculo adstruxerunt supraque cum locum duo tigna transversa iniecerunt non longe ab extremis parietibus, quibus suspenderent eam contignationem, quae turri te …

Plautus, Mostellaria 1.2.112: tígna putéfacit, pérdit operám fabri:

All forms of tignum (declension table)

Source: Socratos (socratos.org), a free reader for Ancient Greek and Latin. Grammar from the Perseus Treebank and Morpheus; dictionary entries from Lewis & Short, A Latin Dictionary (Perseus Digital Library, CC BY-SA). Counts are from the texts on Socratos.