Tignarius
sc. faber. A carpenter and builder, or, more specifically, a roofer; one who puts together the beams (tigna) of a roof (Cic. Brut. 73).
Harry Thurston Peck. Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities. New York. Harper and Brothers. 1898.
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