Buxema

Latin

Alternative forms

Buxemae (plural only)
Abixama, Abissama
Buxemium

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic أَبُو شَامَة (ʔabū šāma, literally “the one with the mole”), clipping of قَلْعَة أَبِي شَامَة (qalʕat ʔabī šāma, literally “castle of the one with the mole”), likely via Old Sicilian, compare modern Buscema. Supposedly found also in the form Buxemium, in a papal diploma from 1168.^[1] The grapheme ⟨x⟩ is here employed for /ʃ/ as many instances of /ʃ/ in Sicilian do derive from a Latin x, as for example coscia. The grapheme was also widely used in Ibero-Romance languages with the same scope.

Proper noun

Buxema f sg (genitive Buxemae); first declension (Medieval Latin)

Buscemi (a city in Sicily)

Declension

First-declension noun, with locative, singular only.

Case	Singular
Nominative	Buxema
Genitive	Buxemae
Dative	Buxemae
Accusative	Buxemam
Ablative	Buxemā
Vocative	Buxema
Locative	Buxemae

Derived terms

Buxemēnsis

References

^ Amico, Vito Maria (1757) Lexicon topographicum Siculum (in Latin), page 118f.

Sicilian

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Etymology

From Latin Buxema.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /buˈʃɛ.ma/, [bʊˈʃɛ.mɪ]
Hyphenation: Bu‧xè‧ma

Proper noun

Buxema m

Buscemi (a city in Italy)

[1] Amico, Vito Maria (1757) Lexicon topographicum Siculum (in Latin), page 118f.

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