λιγνύς

• λίγνῠς (lígnus)

Unknown, perhaps Pre-Greek.^[1]

λῐγνῡ́ς • (lignū́s) f (genitive λῐγνῠ́ος); third declension

1. thick smoke mixed with flame, murky fire (such as is made by burning resinous substances)
   • 384 BCE – 322 BCE, Aristotle, Meteorology 4.387b.6
   • 467 BCE, Aeschylus, Seven Against Thebes 494
   • 442 BCE, Sophocles, Antigone 1127
   • 414 BCE, Aristophanes, The Birds 1241
   • 425 BCE, Aristophanes, Lysistrata 319
   • 497 BCE – 405 BCE, Sophocles, Women of Trachis 794
   • 200 BCE – 118 BCE, Polybius, The Histories 34.11.18
   • 64 BCE – 24 CE, Strabo, Geography 6.2.8
     • Strabo, Geography 6.2.10
     • Strabo, Geography 6.2.11
2. soot
   • 40 CE – 90 CE, Dioscorides, Materia medica 2.72
   • 129 CE – 216 CE, Galen, Collected Works 12.61

• λιγνῠόεις (lignuóeis)

• “λιγνύς”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “λιγνύς”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• λιγνύς in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • fume idem, page 349.
  • reek idem, page 684.
  • smoke idem, page 787.