πύξος
Ancient Greek edit
Etymology edit
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 edit
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /pýk.sos/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈpyk.sos/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈpyk.sos/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈpyk.sos/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈpik.sos/
Noun edit
πῠ́ξος • (púxos) f (genitive πῠ́ξου); second declension
Inflection edit
Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
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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 | ||||||||||
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Derived terms edit
Further reading edit
- “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