Words that come from Latin buxus

400 words across 56 languages descend from Latin buxus — including box, boxing, bouquet, mailbox, boxer, toolbox, boxers, checkbox.

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English (207)

French (28)

Dutch (26)

Italian (16)

German (9)

Danish (7)

Hungarian (7)

Japanese (6)

Cebuano (6)

Portuguese (6)

Norman (5)

Turkish (4)

Korean (4)

Polish (4)

Translingual (4)

Spanish (4)

Russian (3)

Czech (3)

Tok Pisin (3)

Albanian (2)

Irish (2)

Ido (2)

Latin (2)

Galician (2)

Tagalog (2)

Volapük (2)

Old English (2)

Old French (2)

Romanian (2)

Norwegian Bokmål (2)

Old Dutch (1)

Dalmatian (1)

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Indonesian (1)

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Crimean Tatar (1)

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Urdu (1)

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Gallo (1)

Zulu (1)

Estonian (1)

Seychellois Creole (1)

Proto-Germanic (1)

Serbo-Croatian (1)

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