πυξίς

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From πῠ́ξος (púxos, “boxwood”) +‎ -ῐς (-is, feminine suffix).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /pyk.sís/ → /pykˈsis/ → /pikˈsis/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /pyk.sís/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /pykˈsis/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /pykˈsis/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /pykˈsis/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /pikˈsis/

Noun

πῠξῐ́ς • (puxís) f (genitive πῠξῐ́δος); third declension

1. box made of boxwood, box
2. tablet made of boxwood
3. cylinder

Inflection

Third declension of ἡ πῠξῐ́ς; τῆς πῠξῐ́δος (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ πῠξῐ́ς hē puxís	τὼ πῠξῐ́δε tṑ puxíde	αἱ πῠξῐ́δες hai puxídes
Genitive	τῆς πῠξῐ́δος tês puxídos	τοῖν πῠξῐ́δοιν toîn puxídoin	τῶν πῠξῐ́δων tôn puxídōn
Dative	τῇ πῠξῐ́δῐ têi puxídi	τοῖν πῠξῐ́δοιν toîn puxídoin	ταῖς πῠξῐ́σῐ / πῠξῐ́σῐν taîs puxísi(n)
Accusative	τὴν πῠξῐ́δᾰ tḕn puxída	τὼ πῠξῐ́δε tṑ puxíde	τᾱ̀ς πῠξῐ́δᾰς tā̀s puxídas
Vocative	πῠξῐ́ς puxís	πῠξῐ́δε puxíde	πῠξῐ́δες puxídes
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension. Nominative singular -ς (-s) arose by reduction of the original cluster *-ds.

Descendants

• → Late Latin: buxis (see there for further descendants)
• → Latin: pyxis, puxis, pixis (Medieval Latin)
  • → Catalan: pixis, píxide
  • → English: pyxis, pyx
  • → German: Pyxis

References

• “πυξίς”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “πυξίς”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• πυξίς in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette