buxus

See also: Buxus

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin buxus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈbʏk.sʏs/

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• Hyphenation: bu‧xus

Noun

buxus m (plural buxussen)

1. European boxwood, Buxus sempervirens

   Synonyms: buksboom, steekpalm

Latin

Etymology

Uncertain. Ancient Greek πύξος (púxos, “box tree”) is cognate, but probably not the origin, as the tree grew in Italy and is not native to Greece or Asia Minor. Both the Latin and Greek may be from an Italian substrate language.

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈbuk.sus/, [ˈbʊks̠ʊs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈbuk.sus/, [ˈbuksus]

Noun

buxus f (genitive buxī); second declension

1. the evergreen box tree.
2. a thing made of boxwood.

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

Related terms

• buxētum
• buxeus
• buxifer
• pyxis
• buxis
• buxōsus
• buxum

Descendants

• Catalan: boix
• 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
• Venetian: buso, bos
• Walloon: bos, bouxhe
• → Proto-West Germanic: *buhs (see there for further descendants)
• → Translingual: Buxus

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.