buxus
See also: Buxus
Dutch edit
Etymology edit
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
buxus m (plural buxussen)
- European boxwood, Buxus sempervirens
Latin edit
Etymology edit
Uncertain. Ancient Greek πύξος (púxos, “box tree”) is cognate, but probably not the origin, as the tree grew in Italy and is not native to Greece or Asia Minor. Both the Latin and Greek may be from an Italian substrate language.
Pronunciation edit
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈbuk.sus/, [ˈbʊks̠ʊs̠]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈbuk.sus/, [ˈbuksus]
Noun edit
buxus f (genitive buxī); second declension
Declension edit
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 edit
Descendants edit
- Catalan: boix
- Franco-Provençal: boués
- French: buis
- Friulian: bos
- Galician: buxo
- Italian: bosso, bossolo
- Occitan: bois
- Portuguese: buxo
- Romanian: bucsău, buștean
- Sicilian: busciu, busa (plural only)
- Spanish: boj, bujo
- Venetian: buso, bos
- Walloon: bos, bouxhe
- → Proto-West Germanic: *buhs (see there for further descendants)
- → Translingual: Buxus
References edit
- “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.