# buxo
## Asturian
### Adjective

buxo
* neuter of buxu

## Galician
### Alternative forms

* boxe, buxe

### Etymology

From Old Galician-Portuguese, from Latin buxus.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ˈbuʃʊ]

### Noun

buxo m (plural buxos)
* box (Buxus sempervirens)
* 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
* 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 mesterthat 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

* forte coma un buxo

#### Related terms

* buxa
* buxaina

### References

* Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “buxo”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
* Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “bux”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
* Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “buxo”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
* Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “buxo”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
* Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “buxo”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN
* “buxo”, in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega (in Galician), A Coruña: Royal Galician Academy, 2012–2025
* “buxo” in Dicionário Estraviz de galego (2014).

## Ido
### Etymology

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

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈbu.kso/, /ˈbu.ɡzo/

### Noun

buxo (plural buxi)
* box

#### Derived terms

* buxeto (“small box”)

## Latin
### Noun

buxō
* dative/ablative singular of buxus

## Portuguese
### Etymology

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.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈbu.ʃu/
* Hyphenation: bu‧xo

### Noun

buxo m (plural buxos)
* box (any of various evergreen shrubs or trees)
    Synonyms: buxeiro, buxeira

## Venetan
### Noun

buxo m (plural buxi)
* hole (all the way through)