lignum.
wood; firewood; trunk/stump/tree; timber; beam/post; wood (material); stave; wood thing/part, writing-tablet, spear shaft; stone (of fruit), shell (nut); |the Cross; staff, cudgel, club; gallows/stocks; [~ pedaneum => altar step];
Meaning & usage
firewood
wood tissue
tree
Where this word comes from
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.
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