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

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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 Latin) 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

• buxis
• buxōsus
• buxum

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
• 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.