πυξίς

Ancient Greek

From πῠ́ξος (púxos, “boxwood”) +‎ -ῐς (-is, feminine suffix).

πῠξῐ́ς • (puxís) f (genitive πῠξῐ́δος); third declension

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ πῠξῐ́ς hē puxís	τὼ πῠξῐ́δε tṑ puxíde	αἱ πῠξῐ́δες hai puxídes
Genitive	τῆς πῠξῐ́δος tês puxídos	τοῖν πῠξῐ́δοιν toîn puxídoin	τῶν πῠξῐ́δων tôn puxídōn
Dative	τῇ πῠξῐ́δῐ têi puxídi	τοῖν πῠξῐ́δοιν toîn puxídoin	ταῖς πῠξῐ́σῐ / πῠξῐ́σῐν taîs puxísi(n)
Accusative	τὴν πῠξῐ́δᾰ tḕn puxída	τὼ πῠξῐ́δε tṑ puxíde	τᾱ̀ς πῠξῐ́δᾰς tā̀s puxídas
Vocative	πῠξῐ́ς puxís	πῠξῐ́δε puxíde	πῠξῐ́δες puxídes
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension. Nominative singular -ς (-s) arose by reduction of the original cluster *-ds.

→ Late Latin: buxis (see there for further descendants)
→ Latin: pyxis, puxis; pixis (Medieval Latin)
- → Catalan: pixis, píxide
- → English: pyxis, pyx
- → German: Pyxis

“πυξίς”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
“πυξίς”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
πυξίς in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette