Noun: bonus
Hyphenation:
Gender: Masculine
Declension: Second
Genitive
| Singular | bonī |
| Plural | bonōrum |
Accusative
| Singular | bonum |
| Plural | bonōs |
Sample Sentences
Nouns inflected like bonus
priāpismus,
scāpus,
servus,
cuneolus,
sargus,
saccus,
scarus,
scinus,
scopus,
illēgitimus,
sorbus,
sophus,
somnus,
Hispānus,
soccus,
sirpus,
siclus,
icterus,
cunīculus,
xystus, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
1. Etymology tree
2. Proto-Indo-European *dewh₂-der.?
3. Proto-Italic *dwenos
4. Old Latin duenos
5. Old Latin duonus
6. Latin bonus
7. Inherited from Old Latin duonus, from earlier duenos, from Proto-Italic *dwenos, further etymology uncertain. Possibly cognate with beō (“to bless, gladden”). Possible roots include:
8. * Proto-Indo-European *dewh₂- (“to join, fit together”); compare Gothic 𐍄𐌰𐌿𐌾𐌰𐌽 (taujan, “to do, make”) and Ancient Greek δύναμαι (dúnamai, “to be able”).
9. * Proto-Indo-European *deh₃-u, from *deh₃- (“to give”).
10. * Proto-Indo-European *dew- (“to show favor, revere”)
11. * Proto-Indo-European *dwey- (“to fear”), source of Ancient Greek δέος (déos), δεινός (deinós), δειλός (deilós).
12. Compare the change from duellum to bellum, and from duis to bis. See: Ancient Greek Nouns '
δέος'.
Verbs referencing "bonus"
Danish Nouns
bon, French Nouns
bon, Romanian Nouns
bon, Danish Nouns
bonus, Dutch Nouns
bonus, Finnish Nouns
bonus, French Nouns
bonus, Norwegian Bokmål Nouns
bonus, Norwegian Nynorsk Nouns
bonus, Romanian Nouns
bonus, Spanish Nouns
bonus, Swedish Nouns
bonus, Romanian Nouns
bun, Italian Nouns
buono, Icelandic Nouns
bónus, Portuguese Nouns
bónus, Dutch Nouns
bonus-malus, Galician Nouns
bondade, Portuguese Nouns
bonina, Russian Nouns
бонус, Ukrainian Nouns
бонус.
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