Etymology

boxen

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Today it means: Made of boxwood. Full definition →

Middle English boxen ← Old English byxen
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boxen · adjective1

  1. Old English · inherited frombyxen“made of boxwood”
  2. Middle English · inherited fromboxen
  3. English todayboxen

From Middle English boxen, replacing earlier bixen, from Old English byxen (“made of boxwood”), equivalent to box + -en.

boxen · noun2

From box (“computer”) + -en (archaic/Germanic plural suffix), by analogy with VAXen and possibly also oxen.

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