πύξος

Ancient Greek

Etymology

Probably a substrate loanword from Italy, related to Latin buxus (“box tree”). Attempts by Scardigli, who looks for the origin of the term in Asia Minor, and by Carnoy, who connects it to Proto-Indo-European *bʰewgʰ- (“to bend”), are unconvincing.

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /pýk.sos/ → /ˈpyk.sos/ → /ˈpik.sos/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /pýk.sos/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈpyk.sos/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈpyk.sos/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈpyk.sos/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈpik.sos/

Noun

πῠ́ξος • (púxos) f (genitive πῠ́ξου); second declension

1. box tree (Buxus sempervirens)
2. boxwood

Inflection

Second declension of ὁ πῠ́ξος; τοῦ πῠ́ξου (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ὁ πῠ́ξος ho púxos	τὼ πῠ́ξω tṑ púxō	οἱ πῠ́ξοι hoi púxoi
Genitive	τοῦ πῠ́ξου toû púxou	τοῖν πῠ́ξοιν toîn púxoin	τῶν πῠ́ξων tôn púxōn
Dative	τῷ πῠ́ξῳ tôi púxōi	τοῖν πῠ́ξοιν toîn púxoin	τοῖς πῠ́ξοις toîs púxois
Accusative	τὸν πῠ́ξον tòn púxon	τὼ πῠ́ξω tṑ púxō	τοὺς πῠ́ξους toùs púxous
Vocative	πῠ́ξε púxe	πῠ́ξω púxō	πῠ́ξοι púxoi
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Derived terms

• παράπυξος (parápuxos)
• πυξάκανθα (puxákantha)
• πυξίδιον (puxídion)
• πυξίζω (puxízō)
• πύξινος (púxinos)
• πυξίον (puxíon)
• πυξιόπους (puxiópous)
• πυξίς (puxís)
• Πυξίτης (Puxítēs)
• πυξογραφέω (puxographéō)
• πυξοειδής (puxoeidḗs)
• Πυξοῦς (Puxoûs)
• πυξώδης (puxṓdēs)
• πυξών (puxṓn)

 

Further reading

• “πύξος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “πύξος”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• πύξος in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN