The corpus record — Latin

buxus

buxus · f

the pale

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Where it lives

Griphus Ternarii numeri 1 · 9.35/10k
de raptu Proserpinae 4 · 5.74/10k
Agamemnon 2 · 3.6/10k
Appendix Vergiliana 1 · 2.88/10k
Saturae 1 · 2.21/10k
Gordiani Tres 1 · 1.8/10k
Letters 11 · 1.7/10k
Georgicon 2 · 1.41/10k
In Eutropium 1 · 1.39/10k
Achilleis 1 · 1.39/10k
Argonautica 3 · 0.81/10k
Thebais 5 · 0.8/10k

Densest 12 of 26 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

buxus — Lewis & Short

buxus, i, f., = pu/cos (cf.

Prisc. p. 549, and the letter B).

I Lit., the pale, evergreen box-tree, Enn. ap. Phylarg. l. l.: buxus densa foliis, Ov. A. A. 3, 691: crispata, Claud. Rapt. Pros. 2, 110: horrida, id. ib. 2, 268: perpetuo virens, Ov. M. 10, 97; Plin. 16, 43, 84, § 230; for its natural history, v. Plin. 16, 16, 28, § 70 sq.—

II For things made of boxwood (cf. Plin. 16, 36, 66, § 172), a pipe or flute: tympana vos buxasque vocant Berecyntia. Verg. A. 9, 619 Forbig. ad loc.; Ov. M. 4, 30; Stat. Th. 2, 77; 9, 480; Claud. in Eutr. 2, 286; id. Rapt. Pros. 1, 209; 3, 130.

In the wild

buxum Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 16.40.p3
buxus Pliny the Younger, Letters 2.17.14
buxo Vergil, Aeneid 10.136
buxum Vergil, Aeneid 7.382
buxo Ausonius, Griphus Ternarii numeri 1.23
buxus Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 16.16.p2

6 of 81 attestations shown.

Where it came from

Ernout-Meillet, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue latine Treated in Ernout-Meillet, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue latine s.v. buxus (scan p. 103; entry #1412).

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