buxum

buxum

1. indefinite dative of buxur

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈbuk.sum/, [ˈbʊks̠ʊ̃ˑ]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈbuk.sum/, [ˈbuksum]

buxum n (genitive buxī); second declension

1. alternative form of buxus (“boxwood, box tree”)

Second-declension noun (neuter).

buxum

1. accusative singular of buxus

• “buxum”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “buxum”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• buxum 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)
• buxum in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “buxum”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “buxum”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin

• boȝsam, bousome, bowsom, boxom, boxum, buhsum, buxom, boxom

From Old English *būhsum; equivalent to bowen +‎ -som.

• IPA^(key): /ˈbuksum/, /ˈbuːsum/

buxum

1. obediant, compliant
2. humble, kind
3. bending, twisted

• buxumly

• English: buxom, bucksome
• Scots: boosam (Orkney)

• “buxǒm, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-03-20.