pyxis

From Latin pyxis (“small box”). Doublet of box, piseog, and pyx.

• IPA^(key): /ˈpɪksɪs/

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pyxis (plural pyxides)

1. A small box.
2. (botany) A capsule in which the lid separates from the top of the fruit to release the seeds.

   Synonym: pyxidium

3. A nautical compass.
4. (Christianity) The box in which ashes are stored for Ash Wednesday.
5. (anatomy) acetabulum.

Borrowed from Latin pyxis, from Ancient Greek πυξίς (puxís). Doublet of box, buks (“shotgun”), and bus (“container”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈpiksɪs/
• Hyphenation: py‧xis

pyxis f (plural pyxiden or pyxissen, diminutive pyxisje n)

1. Various types of small box:
   1. (Roman Catholicism) A small box for storing consecrated hosts, e.g. in a tabernacle or for travel when tending to the sick.
   2. (archaeology) A type of small box from Ancient Greece holding small, valuable items (such as jewellery, cosmetics or medicine).

• pyxis on the Dutch Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^nl

• puxis
• pixis (Medieval Latin)

Borrowed from Ancient Greek πυξίς (puxís).

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈpyk.sis/, [ˈpʏks̠ɪs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈpik.sis/, [ˈpiksis]

pyxis f (genitive pyxidis); third declension

1. A small box, for holding medicines or toiletries.

Third-declension noun.

• pyxidatus

• → Catalan: pixis, píxide
• → English: pyxis, pyx
• → German: Pyxis

• “pyxis”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “pyxis”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• pyxis in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• pyxis in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “pyxis”, in The Perseus Project (1999) Perseus Encyclopedia‎
• “pyxis”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “pyxis”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin