buxus
See also: Buxus
Dutch
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈbʏk.sʏs/
Audio (file) - Hyphenation: bu‧xus
Latin
Etymology
Uncertain. From Ancient Greek πύξος (púxos, “box tree”). But since the tree grew in Italy and is not native to Greece or Asia Minor, it could be a loan from Italy.
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈbuk.sus/, [ˈbʊks̠ʊs̠]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈbuk.sus/, [ˈbuksus]
Declension
Second-declension noun.
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | buxus | buxī |
| Genitive | buxī | buxōrum |
| Dative | buxō | buxīs |
| Accusative | buxum | buxōs |
| Ablative | buxō | buxīs |
| Vocative | buxe | buxī |
Descendants
- Catalan: boix
- → German: Buchs
- → English: box
- Franco-Provençal: boués
- French: buis
- Friulian: bos
- Galician: buxo
- Italian: bosso, bossolo
- Occitan: bois
- Portuguese: buxo
- Romanian: bucsău, buștean
- Sicilian: busciu, busa (plural only)
- Spanish: boj, bujo
- Translingual: Buxus (borrowing)
- Venetian: buso, bos
- Walloon: bos, bouxhe
References
- “buxus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “buxus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- buxus in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
- buxus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette
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