- πύξος
- πύξοςGrammatical information: f.Meaning: `box tree, box wood' (Arist., hell.).Dialectal forms: Myc. pukoso (cf. Scardigli Minos 6:2, 1f.)Compounds: Few compp., e.g. παρά-πυξος `inlaid with π.' (Cratin.).Derivatives: 1. πυξ-ίον n. `writing-table (made of π.)' (com.); 2. -ίς f. `box (made of π.)' (hell.); 3. -ίδιον n. dimin. of 1. a. 2. (Ar., pap.); 4. πύξ-ινος `made of π., π.-colour' (Ω 269, Att.); 5. -ίνεος `id.' (AP); 6. -ώδης 'π.-like', of the colour (Dsc.); 7. -(ε)ών, -(ε)ῶνος `box tree grove' (gramm.); 8. -ίζω 'to be π.-coloured' (medic.); 9. Πυξοῦς, -οῦντος 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)?Origin: LW [a loanword which is (probably) not of Pre-Greek origin] ItalyEtymology: Foreign word of unknown origin. After Scardigli Sprache 6, 220 ff. (with extensive treatment w. lit.) Anatolian, and like Arm. boys `plant' from IE *bheu- `grow' (s. φύω). Diff., even more improbable, Carnoy Ant. class. 24, 22 and REGr. 69, 284 (to IE *bheugh- `bow'). Earlier attempts at explanation from IE in Bq. From πύξος, -ίς, -ινον 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).Page in Frisk: 2,626
Greek-English etymological dictionary (Ελληνικά-Αγγλικά ετυμολογική λεξικό). Robert S.P.. 2010.