buxum

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈbuk.sum/, [ˈbʊk.sũː]

buxum n (genitive buxī); second declension

1. boxwood, box tree

Second declension.

buxum

1. accusative singular of buxus

• buxum in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• buxum in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• buxum in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• buxum in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• buxum in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• buxum in William Smith et al., editor (1890) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin

• buxom, buhsum, boȝsam, boxum, bousome, bowsom, boxom

From Old English *būhsum; equivalent to bowen +‎ -some.

• IPA^(key): /ˈbuksum/, /ˈbɔusum/

buxum

1. obediant, compliant
2. humble, kind
3. bending, twisted

• English: buxom, bucksome

• “buxǒm (n.)” in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-03-20.