πύξος

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.[1]

Pronunciation

 

Noun

πῠ́ξος • (pŭ́xos) f (genitive πῠ́ξου); second declension

  1. box tree (Buxus sempervirens)
  2. boxwood

Inflection

Second declension of ἡ πῠ́ξος; τῆς πῠ́ξου (Attic)
Case / # Singular Dual Plural
Nominative ἡ πῠ́ξος
hē pŭ́xos 		τὼ πῠ́ξω
tṑ pŭ́xō 		αἱ πῠ́ξοι
hai pŭ́xoi
Genitive τῆς πῠ́ξου
tês pŭ́xou 		τοῖν πῠ́ξοιν
toîn pŭ́xoin 		τῶν πῠ́ξων
tôn pŭ́xōn
Dative τῇ πῠ́ξῳ
tēî pŭ́xōi 		τοῖν πῠ́ξοιν
toîn pŭ́xoin 		ταῖς πῠ́ξοις
taîs pŭ́xois
Accusative τὴν πῠ́ξον
tḕn pŭ́xon 		τὼ πῠ́ξω
tṑ pŭ́xō 		τᾱ̀ς πῠ́ξους
tā̀s pŭ́xous
Vocative πῠ́ξε
pŭ́xe 		πῠ́ξω
pŭ́xō 		πῠ́ξοι
pŭ́xoi
Notes:
  • This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Derived terms

  • παράπυξος (parápuxos)
  • πυξάκανθα (puxákantha)
  • πυξίδιον (puxídion)
  • πυξίζω (puxízō)
  • πύξινος (púxinos)
  • πυξίον (puxíon)
  • πυξιόπους (puxiópous)
  • πυξίς (puxís)
  • Πυξίτης (Puxítēs)
  • πυξογραφέω (puxographéō)
  • πυξοειδής (puxoeidḗs)
  • Πυξοῦς (Puxoûs)
  • πυξώδης (puxṓdēs)
  • πυξών (puxṓn)

References

  1. ^ Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) “πύξος”, in Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 1259

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