wood Copy link Outline I. The substance, timber1. lignum2. mātĕria (large solid w., timber)II. The place where trees are1. silva2. nĕmus, ŏris, n. (a wood with glades and pasture)3. lūcus (strictly, a sacred w. or grove)4. saltus, ūs (a w.'d glen, valley, a forest-pasture) • wood: I. The substance, timber: 1. lignum: the trunk of a fig-tree, useless w., truncus ficulnus, inutile lignum, Hor. S. 1, 8, 1: in pl. of small sticks, esp. firewood: he ordered a fire to be made with green and moist w., ignem ex lignis viridibus atque humidis fieri jussit, Cic. Verr. 1, 17. 2. mātĕria (large solid w., timber): between the bark and the w., inter librum et materiam, Col.: all w., whether of cultivated or wild trees, we use partly for warming the body, partly for building, omni materia et culta et silvestri partim ad calefaciendum corpus utimur, partim ad aedificandum, Cic. N. D. 2, 60, 151. Phr.: the substance of w., lignea materia, Cic. Inv. 2, 57, 170: v. wooden. II. The place where trees are: 1. silva: fire would destroy the w.s, ignes conficerent silvas, Lucr. 1, 905: Caesar determined to cut down the w.s, Caesar silvas caedere instituit, Caes. B. G. 3, 29. 2. nĕmus, ŏris, n. (a wood with glades and pasture): w.s and forests, nemora silvaeque, Cic. Div. 1, 50: a w. thick with trees, nemus densum arboribus, Ov. F. 6, 9. 3. lūcus (strictly, a sacred w. or grove): the w.s which India bears, quos gerit India lucos, Virg. G. 2, 122. 4. saltus, ūs (a w.'d glen, valley, a forest-pasture): so that he hurried out of his hiding-places, and forests or w.s, ut ille latebris ac silvis aut saltibus se eriperet, Caes. B. G. 6, 43: let them feed in the open w.s, saltibus in vacuis pascant, Virg. G. 3, 143. Fig.: to get one safe out of the w. (of danger), ex saltu damni elicere foras, Pl. Men. 5, 6, 30.