Buxema

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Latin

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Old Sicilian Buxema. Supposedly found also in the form Buxemium, in a papal diploma from 1168.[1]

Proper noun

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Buxema f sg (genitive Buxemae); first declension (Medieval Latin)

  1. Buscemi (a city in Sicily)

Declension

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First-declension noun, with locative, singular only.

Case Singular
Nominative Buxema
Genitive Buxemae
Dative Buxemae
Accusative Buxemam
Ablative Buxemā
Vocative Buxema
Locative Buxemae

Derived terms

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References

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  1. ^ Amico, Vito Maria (1757) Lexicon topographicum Siculum (in Latin), page 118f.

Sicilian

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Arabic أَبُو شَامَة (ʔabū šāma, literally “the one with the mole”), clipping of the extended form قَلْعَة أَبِي شَامَة (qalʕat ʔabī šāma, literally “castle of the one with the mole”). Doublet of Buscema. Compare, for a similar output from Siculo-Arabic, compare Nissa and Xibbetta.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /buˈʃɛ.ma/, [bʊˈʃɛ.ma]
  • Hyphenation: Bu‧xè‧ma

Proper noun

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Buxema m

  1. Buscemi (a small community on the Hyblaean Mountains, in Sicily, Italy)

Usage notes

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  • The stressed syllable is etymologically /ʃ/, regardless of the grapheme with which it is represented, e.g. ⟨s⟩, ⟨ss⟩, ⟨x⟩, ⟨š⟩.
  • The grapheme ⟨x⟩ is here notably employed for /ʃ/, in the same way as it is used in the Ibero-Romance languages.

Derived terms

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Descendants

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  • → Medieval Latin: Buxema
  • → Sicilian: Buscema

See also

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