Noun: buxo
Gender: m
Hyphenation:
| Singular m | buxo |
| Plural m | buxos |
Sample Sentences
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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) [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:]
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1434, A. López Carreira (ed.), Libro de notas de Álvaro Afonso (1434), doc. 215 (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)
Nouns inflected like buxo
miligramo,
mililitro,
acontecemento,
urodelo,
ancoradoiro,
vimieiro,
serrón,
sesego,
sedeño,
iceberg,
sarrio,
sabuio,
sabugo,
sabujo,
sabuxo,
sabelo,
sangue,
saibro,
saltón,
salmón, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese buxo, from Latin buxus, from Ancient Greek πύξος (púxos). See: Old Portuguese Nouns '
buxo', Old Portuguese Nouns '
buxo', Latin Nouns '
buxus', Ancient Greek Nouns '
πύξος'.
Verbs referencing "buxo"
Portuguese Nouns
buxo.
Translations