Buxema

• Buxemae (plural only)
• Buxemium

Borrowed from Old Sicilian Buxema. Supposedly found also in the form Buxemium, in a papal diploma from 1168.^[1]

Buxema f sg (genitive Buxemae); first declension (Medieval Latin)

1. Buscemi (a city in Sicily)

First-declension noun, with locative, singular only.

• Qalat Abu Sama, Abixema, Abuxama, Abissama, Abussama (Siculo-Arabic and Norman variants)
• Buscema (Italianate spelling)
• Calatabuxema, Abuxema (learned borrowing)

From an intermediate *Abu Xama ~ *Abu Xema, borrowed from Arabic أَبُو شَامَة (ʔabū šāma, literally “the one with the mole”), clipping of the extended form قَلْعَة أَبِي شَامَة (qalʕat ʔabī šāma, literally “castle of the one with the mole”). Doublet of Buscema. For similar toponymical outputs from Siculo-Arabic, compare Nissa and Xibbetta.

• IPA^(key): /buʃˈʃɛ.ma/, [bʊˈʃːɛ.ma]
• Rhymes: -ɛma
• Hyphenation: Bu‧xè‧ma

Buxema m

1. Buscemi (a small community on the Hyblaean Mountains, in Sicily, Italy)

• The stressed syllable is etymologically /ʃ/, regardless of the grapheme with which it is represented, e.g. ⟨s⟩, ⟨ss⟩, ⟨š⟩, ⟨x⟩.
• The grapheme ⟨x⟩ is here notably employed for /ʃː/, in the same way as it is used in the Ibero-Romance languages.

• → Medieval Latin: Buxema
• → Sicilian: Buscema
  • → English: Buscemi
  • → Italian: Buscemi