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buxo

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Asturian

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Adjective

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buxo

  1. neuter of buxu

Galician

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buxos

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Etymology

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From Old Galician-Portuguese, from Latin buxus.

Pronunciation

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Noun

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buxo m (plural buxos)

  1. box (Buxus sempervirens)
  2. boxwood
    • 1455, X. Ferro Couselo, editor, A vida e a fala dos devanceiros. Escolma de documentos en galego dos séculos XIII ao XVI, Vigo: Galaxia, page 315:
      Médea dusia de colleres de buxo, que acharon en un correo pechado, et mays acharon eno dito correo noue mrs en rayás et triinta mrs en coroados vellos.
      Half a dozen boxwood spoons, that they found inside a closed mail, and they also found inside said mail nine maravedis in royals and thirty maravedis in old crowns
  3. shaft of a watermill, which transmits the movement from the wheel to the running millstone
    • 1434, A. López Carreira (ed.), Libro de notas de Álvaro Afonso (1434), doc. 215:
      que vos día os ditos muynos apostados et reparados de moos e buxos e ferros e caanlles e rodiseos et de todaslas outras outras cousas que feseren mester
      that I shall give you these mills ready and repaired of millstones and shafts and irons and chutes and waterwheels and of all the other necessary things

Derived terms

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Ido

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Etymology

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Borrowed from English boxGerman Büchse. Also found in French boite. The use of -u- instead of -o- is to distinguish the word from boxo (boxing).

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ˈbu.kso/, /ˈbu.ɡzo/

Noun

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buxo (plural buxi)

  1. box

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Latin

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Noun

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buxō

  1. dative/ablative singular of buxus

Portuguese

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Portuguese Wikipedia has an article on:
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Etymology

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Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese buxo, from Latin buxus, from Ancient Greek πύξος (púxos).

Cognate with Galician buxo, Spanish boj, Catalan boix, Occitan bois, French buis, Italian bosso, Romanian bucsău and English box.

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  • Hyphenation: bu‧xo

Noun

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buxo m (plural buxos)

  1. box (any of various evergreen shrubs or trees)
    Synonyms: buxeiro, buxeira

Venetan

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Noun

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buxo m (plural buxi)

  1. hole (all the way through)