Unnumbered source etymology
Original entry ↗To place (the host) in a pyx. · To enclose (something) in a box or other container; specifically, to place (a deceased person's body) in a coffin; to coffin, to encoffin. · To deposit (sample coins) in a pyx; (by extension) to test (such coins) for the fineness of metal and weight before a mint issues them to the public.
A small, usually round container used to hold the host (“consecrated bread or wafer of the Eucharist”), especially when bringing communion to the sick or others unable to attend Mass. · A (small) box; a casket, a coffret. · A box used in a mint as a place to deposit sample coins intended to have the fineness of their metal and their weight tested before the coins are issued to the public. · A compass used by sailors.
The noun is derived from Late Middle English pix, pixe (“vessel for holding a host, pyx; hip bone socket, pyxis”) [and other forms], from Late Latin pyxis (“vessel for holding a host”), Latin pyxis (“small box for medicines or toiletries; box holding sample coins for testing; hip bone socket; sailor's compass”), from Koine Greek πυξίς (puxís), Ancient Greek πῠξῐ́ς (pŭxĭ́s, “box; box or tablet made of boxwood; cylinder”), from πῠ́ξος (pŭ́xos, “box tree; boxwood”) + -ῐς (-ĭs, suffix forming feminine nouns). Doublet of box, piseog, and pyxis. The verb is derived from the noun.
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- Inherited-form mentionpixenm
- Derivation mentionpyxisla · small box for medicines or toiletries; box holding sample coins for testing; hip bone socket; sailor's compass
- Derivation mentionπῠξῐ́ςgrc · box; box or tablet made of boxwood; cylinder
- Doublet mentionboxen
- Doublet mentionpiseogen
- Doublet mentionpyxisen
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