lignamen

Latin

Etymology

From lignum (“firewood”) +‎ -men. Attested in the Edictum Rothari.[1]

Noun

lignāmen n (genitive lignāminis); third declension

(Late Latin, Medieval Latin) timber

Descendants

Italian: legname
- → Spanish: leñame
Old Catalan: lenyam[2]
- Catalan: llenyam
Sicilian: lignami
- → Maltese: injam

References

Niermeyer, Jan Frederik (1976), “lignamen”, in Mediae Latinitatis Lexicon Minus, Leiden, Boston: E. J. Brill, page 612
“lenyam” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

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