buxo

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Asturian

Adjective

buxo

  1. neuter of buxu

Galician

buxos

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Old Galician-Portuguese, from Latin buxus.

Pronunciation

Noun

buxo m (plural buxos)

  1. box (Buxus sempervirens)
  2. 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
  3. 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

References

Ido

Etymology

Borrowed from English boxGerman Büchse. Also found in French boite. The use of -u- instead of -o- is to distinguish the word from boxo (boxing).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈbu.kso/, /ˈbu.ɡzo/

Noun

buxo (plural buxi)

  1. box

Derived terms

Latin

Noun

buxō

  1. dative/ablative singular of buxus

Portuguese

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Etymology

Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese buxo, from Latin buxus, from Ancient Greek πύξος (púxos).

Cognate with Galician buxo, Spanish boj, Catalan boix, Occitan bois, French buis, Italian bosso, Romanian bucsău and English box.

Pronunciation

  • Hyphenation: bu‧xo

Noun

buxo m (plural buxos)

  1. box (any of various evergreen shrubs or trees)
    Synonyms: buxeiro, buxeira

Venetan

Noun

buxo m (plural buxi)

  1. hole (all the way through)