buxus

Borrowed from Latin buxus.

• IPA^(key): /ˈbʏk.sʏs/

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• Hyphenation: bu‧xus

buxus m (plural buxussen)

1. European boxwood, Buxus sempervirens

   Synonyms: buksboom, steekpalm

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.

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈbuk.sus/, [ˈbʊks̠ʊs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈbuk.sus/, [ˈbuksus]

buxus f (genitive buxī); second declension

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

Second-declension noun.

• “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.