πυξίς
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Ancient Greek
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From πῠ́ξος (púxos, “boxwood”) + -ῐς (-is, feminine suffix).
Pronunciation
[edit]- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /pyk.sís/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /pykˈsis/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /pykˈsis/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /pykˈsis/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /pikˈsis/
Noun
[edit]πῠξῐ́ς • (puxís) f (genitive πῠξῐ́δος); third declension
Inflection
[edit]Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
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Nominative | ἡ πῠξῐ́ς hē puxís |
τὼ πῠξῐ́δε tṑ puxíde |
αἱ πῠξῐ́δες hai puxídes | ||||||||||
Genitive | τῆς πῠξῐ́δος tês puxídos |
τοῖν πῠξῐ́δοιν toîn puxídoin |
τῶν πῠξῐ́δων tôn puxídōn | ||||||||||
Dative | τῇ πῠξῐ́δῐ têi puxídi |
τοῖν πῠξῐ́δοιν toîn puxídoin |
ταῖς πῠξῐ́σῐ / πῠξῐ́σῐν taîs puxísi(n) | ||||||||||
Accusative | τὴν πῠξῐ́δᾰ tḕn puxída |
τὼ πῠξῐ́δε tṑ puxíde |
τᾱ̀ς πῠξῐ́δᾰς tā̀s puxídas | ||||||||||
Vocative | πῠξῐ́ς puxís |
πῠξῐ́δε puxíde |
πῠξῐ́δες puxídes | ||||||||||
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Descendants
[edit]- → Late Latin: buxis (see there for further descendants)
- → Latin: pyxis, puxis, pixis (Medieval Latin)
References
[edit]- “πυξίς”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “πυξίς”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- πυξίς in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
Categories:
- Ancient Greek terms suffixed with -ις
- Ancient Greek 2-syllable words
- Ancient Greek terms with IPA pronunciation
- Ancient Greek lemmas
- Ancient Greek nouns
- Ancient Greek oxytone terms
- Ancient Greek feminine nouns
- Ancient Greek third-declension nouns
- Ancient Greek feminine nouns in the third declension
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