buxus

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Dutch

Buxus sempervirens

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin buxus.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈbʏk.sʏs/
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  • Hyphenation: bu‧xus

Noun

buxus m (plural buxussen)

  1. A box, boxwood, any plant of the genus Buxus.
  2. (particularly) European boxwood (Buxus sempervirens)
    Synonyms: buksboom, buks, steekpalm

Further reading

Latin

Etymology

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

Noun

buxus f (genitive buxī); second declension

  1. the evergreen box tree.
  2. a thing made of boxwood.

Declension

Second-declension noun.

singular plural
nominative buxus buxī
genitive buxī buxōrum
dative buxō buxīs
accusative buxum buxōs
ablative buxō buxīs
vocative buxe buxī

Descendants

References

  • “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.
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