Noun: bene
Sample Sentences
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What is good for a bootless bene? [1815, William Wordsworth, The Force of Prayer:]
Nouns inflected like bene
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From Middle English bene, from Old English bēn (“prayer, request, petition, favour, compulsory service”), from Proto-Germanic *bōniz (“supplication”). Cognate with Danish bøn (“prayer”), Swedish bön (“prayer”), Icelandic bæn (“prayer”), Icelandic bón (“request”). Related to ban. See also boon, bee. See: Middle English Nouns '
bene', Danish Nouns '
bøn', Swedish Nouns '
bön', Icelandic Nouns '
bæn', Icelandic Nouns '
bón'.