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Dutch
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin buxus.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈbʏk.sʏs/
- Hyphenation: bu‧xus
Noun
buxus m (plural buxussen)
- European boxwood, Buxus sempervirens
- Synonyms: buksboom, steekpalm
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
- the evergreen box tree.
- a thing made of boxwood.
Declension
Second-declension noun.
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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.