buxis

From Ancient Greek πυξίς (puxís, “box”). Doublet of buxus and pyxis.

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈbʊk.sɪs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈbuk.sis]

buxis m (genitive buxidis); third declension

1. (Late Latin) a box

Third-declension noun.

• ⇒ Vulgar Latin: *buxita
  • Old French: boiste
    • French: boîte, boite (post-1990 spelling)
      • Haitian Creole: bwat
      • Mauritian Creole: bwat
      • Seychellois Creole: bwat
      • → Malagasy: boaty
      • → Moore: boata
      • → Sicilian: buatta
      • → Portuguese: boate
      • → Spanish: boîte
    • Norman: boête
    • → Breton: boest
    • → Italian: busta
  • Old Galician-Portuguese: buxeta, bucheta, boceta, buceta, bueta, buçeta
    • Galician: buceta
    • Portuguese: boceta, buceta (misspelling or alternative spelling)
  • Old Spanish:
    • Spanish: buje
  • → Proto-West Germanic: *buhsā (see there for further descendants)
• ⇒ Vulgar Latin: *buxula (or from buxus)
  • Italian: bussola (see there for further descendants)

• "buxis", 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)