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.

Pronunciation

(5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /pýk.sos/
(1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈpyk.sos/
(4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈpyk.sos/
(10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈpyk.sos/
(15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈpik.sos/

Noun

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

Inflection

Second declension of ὁ πῠ́ξος; τοῦ πῠ́ξου (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ὁ πῠ́ξος ho pŭ́xos	τὼ πῠ́ξω tṑ pŭ́xō	οἱ πῠ́ξοι hoi pŭ́xoi
Genitive	τοῦ πῠ́ξου toû pŭ́xou	τοῖν πῠ́ξοιν toîn pŭ́xoin	τῶν πῠ́ξων tôn pŭ́xōn
Dative	τῷ πῠ́ξῳ tôi pŭ́xōi	τοῖν πῠ́ξοιν toîn pŭ́xoin	τοῖς πῠ́ξοις toîs pŭ́xois
Accusative	τὸν πῠ́ξον tòn pŭ́xon	τὼ πῠ́ξω tṑ pŭ́xō	τοὺς πῠ́ξους toùs 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)

“πύξος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
“πύξος”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
πύξος in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN