πύξος: Difference between revisions

|Definition=ἡ, <span class="sense"><span class="bld">A</span> [[box]], [[Buxus sempervirens]], <span class="bibl">Thphr.<span class="title">HP</span>3.15.5</span>, <span class="bibl">Arist.<span class="title">Mu.</span> 401a3</span>, <span class="bibl"><span class="title">Mir.</span>831b23</span>, etc. (Hom. only has Adj. [[πύξινος]]): [[proverb|prov.]], <b class="b3">πύξον εἰς Κύτωρον ἤγαγες</b> 'carry coals to Newcastle', <span class="bibl">Eust.88.3</span>. </span><span class="sense"><span class="bld">2</span> [[boxwood]], IG42(1).102.45 (Epid., iv. B.C.), <span class="bibl">Nic.<span class="title">Al.</span>579</span>, <span class="bibl"><span class="title">Th.</span>516</span>.</span>

|etymtx=Grammatical information: f.<br />Meaning: [[box tree]], [[box wood]] (Arist., hell.).<br />Dialectal forms: Myc. [[pukoso]] (cf. Scardigli Minos 6:2, 1f.)<br />Compounds: Few compp., e.g. <b class="b3">παρά-πυξος</b> <b class="b2">inlaid with π.</b> (Cratin.).<br />Derivatives: 1. <b class="b3">πυξ-ίον</b> n. <b class="b2">writing-table (made of π.)</b> (com.); 2. <b class="b3">-ίς</b> f. <b class="b2">box (made of π.)</b> (hell.); 3. <b class="b3">-ίδιον</b> n. dimin. of 1. a. 2. (Ar., pap.); 4. <b class="b3">πύξ-ινος</b> <b class="b2">made of π., π.-colour</b> (Ω 269, Att.); 5. <b class="b3">-ίνεος</b> <b class="b2">id.</b> (AP); 6. <b class="b3">-ώδης</b> [[π]].-like', of the colour (Dsc.); 7. -(<b class="b3">ε)ών</b>, -(<b class="b3">ε)ῶνος</b> [[box tree grove]] (gramm.); 8. <b class="b3">-ίζω</b> 'to be [[π]].-coloured' (medic.); 9. [[Πυξοῦς]], <b class="b3">-οῦντος</b> m. river and town in Lucania, Lat. Buxen-tum (Krahe Beitr. zur Namenforsch. 2, 233 w. lit.); also 10. [[Πυξίτης]] m. river near Trapezus in Asia Minor (Arr. a.o.; Redard 175)?<br />Origin: LW [a loanword which is (probably) not of Pre-Greek origin] Italy<br />Etymology: Foreign word of unknown origin. After Scardigli Sprache 6, 220 ff. (with extensive treatment w. lit.) Anatolian, and like Arm. [[boys]] [[plant]] from IE <b class="b2">*bheu-</b> [[grow]] (s. [[φύω]]). Diff., even more improbable, Carnoy Ant. class. 24, 22 and REGr. 69, 284 (to IE <b class="b2">*bheugh-</b> [[bow]]). Earlier attempts at explanation from IE in Bq. From [[πύξος]], <b class="b3">-ίς</b>, <b class="b3">-ινον</b> Lat. [[buxus]] (hardly independent loan), [[pyxis]], [[pyxinum]] (s.W.-Hofmann s. vv. w. further lit.); from there the modern Eur. forms (Fr. [[buis]], NHG [[Büchse]], Engl. [[box]] etc.). -- Furnée157 stresses that the tree is at home in Italy, not in Asia Minor or Greece (Schrader-Nehrin RL s. Buxus).