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Ancient Greek
Etymology
Probably a substrate loanword from Italy, related to Latin buxus (“box tree”). Attempts by Scardigli, who looks for the origin of the term in Asia Minor, and by Carnoy, who connects it to Proto-Indo-European *bʰewgʰ- (“to bend”), are unconvincing.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /pýk.sos/ → /ˈpyk.sos/ → /ˈpik.sos/
Noun
πῠ́ξος • (púxos) f (genitive πῠ́ξου); second declension
- box tree (Buxus sempervirens)
- boxwood
Inflection
Derived terms
Further reading
- “πύξος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “πύξος”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- πύξος in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN