buxo

Asturian

Adjective

buxo

1. neuter of buxu

Galician

buxos

Alternative forms

• boxe, buxe

Etymology

From Old Galician-Portuguese, from Latin buxus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈbuʃʊ]

Noun

buxo m (plural buxos)

1. box (Buxus sempervirens)
2. boxwood
   • 1455, X. Ferro Couselo, editor, A vida e a fala dos devanceiros. Escolma de documentos en galego dos séculos XIII ao XVI, Vigo: Galaxia, page 315:

     Médea dusia de colleres de buxo, que acharon en un correo pechado, et mays acharon eno dito correo noue mrs en rayás et triinta mrs en coroados vellos.

     Half a dozen boxwood spoons, that they found inside a closed mail, and they also found inside said mail nine maravedis in royals and thirty maravedis in old crowns

3. shaft of a watermill, which transmits the movement from the wheel to the running millstone
   • 1434, A. López Carreira (ed.), Libro de notas de Álvaro Afonso (1434), doc. 215:

     que vos día os ditos muynos apostados et reparados de moos e buxos e ferros e caanlles e rodiseos et de todaslas outras outras cousas que feseren mester

     that I shall give you these mills ready and repaired of millstones and shafts and irons and chutes and waterwheels and of all the other necessary things

Derived terms

• forte coma un buxo

Related terms

• buxa
• buxaina

References

• Ernesto González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “buxo”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: ILG
• “bux” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006–2018.
• “buxo” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
• “buxo” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
• “buxo” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

Ido

Etymology

Borrowed from English box, German Büchse. Also found in French boite. The use of -u- instead of -o- is to distinguish the word from boxo (“boxing”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈbu.kso/, /ˈbu.ɡzo/

Noun

buxo (plural buxi)

1. box

Derived terms

• buxeto (“small box”)

 

Latin

Noun

buxō

1. dative/ablative singular of buxus

Portuguese

Etymology

Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese buxo, from Latin buxus, from Ancient Greek πύξος (púxos).

Cognate with Galician buxo, Spanish boj, Catalan boix, Occitan bois, French buis, Italian bosso, Romanian bucsău and English box.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈbu.ʃu/

• Hyphenation: bu‧xo

Noun

buxo m (plural buxos)

1. box (any of various evergreen shrubs or trees)

   Synonyms: buxeiro, buxeira

Venetian

Noun

buxo m (plural buxi)

1. hole (all the way through)