Box

• (surname): Boxx

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Box

1. A surname.
   • 2022 August 29, Elena Shao, “New Research Forecasts More Dire Sea Level Rise as Greenland’s Ice Melts”, in The New York Times‎^[1]:

     The 10-inch increase forecast in the new study, which does not give a timeline, could be much higher if temperatures continue to rise, as they almost certainly will, said Jason Box, a glaciologist at the Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland who was the paper’s lead author.

2. A village in Minchinhampton parish, south of Stroud, Gloucestershire, England (OS grid ref SO8600).
3. A village and civil parish near Corsham, Wiltshire, England (OS grid ref ST8268). ^[1]

• BXO, OBX

Borrowed from English box. Doublet of Büchse (“can”) and Buchse (“bushing, connector”).

• IPA^(key): /bɔks/

• Audio (Germany (Berlin)):

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• Rhymes: -ɔks

Box f (genitive Box, plural Boxen)

1. box (cuboid container); but not as widely used as in English in formal language, perhaps most common for plastic boxes
2. (electronics) loudspeaker (box-like encasing containing one or more loudspeaker devices)
3. (equestrianism) a stall for a horse (compartment in a stable); not used for a horsebox, which is Pferdeanhänger
   • 1913 [1878], chapter 21, in Hermann Röhl, transl., Anna Karenina‎^[2], translation of Анна Каренина (Anna Karenina) by Leo Tolstoy, part 2:

     In der Box stand ein dunkelbraunes Pferd mit einem Kappzaum und stampfte in dem frischen Stroh umher.

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

4. (motor racing) pit (area for refueling and repairing)

• With regard to the derived senses 2, 3, and 4, Box has become a false friend of its English etymon, box.

• (box): Behälter; Dose; Karton; Kasten; Kiste; Schachtel

• “Box” in Duden online
• “Box”, in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache‎^[3] (in German)

• bóx, bóks, box, boks (Veldeke spelling)
• Botts (Eupen)
• Bocksch

Derived from or related to Middle Low German buxe. Compare Luxembourgish Box and Central Franconian Botz.

• IPA^(key): /ˈboks/, [ˈbʊks]
• (some dialects and some younger speakers) IPA^(key): /ˈbɔks/, [ˈbɒks]
• Rhymes: -oks

Box f (plural Boxe, diminutive Böxke) (German-based spelling)

1. trousers (UK); pants (US)
2. diaper
3. feathers on a chicken's leg

• IPA^(key): /boks/

Box f (plural Boxen)

1. trousers