buxo

Asturian edit

Adjective edit

buxo

neuter of buxu

Galician edit

buxos

Alternative forms edit

boxe, buxe

Etymology edit

From Old Galician-Portuguese, from Latin buxus.

Pronunciation edit

IPA^(key): [ˈbuʃʊ]

Noun edit

buxo m (plural buxos)

box (Buxus sempervirens)
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
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 edit

forte coma un buxo

Related terms edit

buxa
buxaina

References edit

“buxo” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006–2022.
“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 edit

Etymology edit

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”).