Adjective: bona
Comparison Forms
Synthetic
Perifrastic
| Comparative | more bona |
| Superlative | most bona |
Sample Sentences
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SANDY: Oh, get him! The vanity of the man. Well, p'raps not Nelson then. How about reproductions of great masterpieces?
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JULIAN: A bona idea. Now, let me see... [1966, Kenneth Horne, Bona Tattoos (Round the Horne), season 2, spoken by Julian and Sandy (Hugh Paddick and Kenneth Williams):]
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Will you take a varder at the cartz on the feely-omi in the naf strides: the one with the bona blue ogles polarying the omi-palone with a vogue on and a cod sheitel. [1997, James Gardiner, Who's a Pretty Boy Then?, page 137:]
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Bona to vada you. [1997, Ian Lucas, “The Color of His Eyes: Polari and the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence”, in Anna Livia, Kira Hall, editors, Queerly Phrased: Language, Gender, and Sexuality, page 90:]
Adjectives inflected like bona
priest-ridden,
unreposed,
evadible,
dissentious,
dissentient,
unforesighted,
egocentrical,
unephemeral,
unennobling,
mensuralist,
flocculent,
unseductive,
whoopsy,
whooshy,
surrogate,
Nicodian,
unrepaired,
prismatoidal,
renorenal,
unseducible, etc. (List truncated at 20 adjectives)
Etymology
Borrowed from Sabir bona (“good”), from Italian buono (“good”), from Latin bonus (“good”), from Old Latin duenos (“good”), from Proto-Italic *dwenos (“good”). Doublet of bonus. See: Italian Adjectives '
buono', Latin Adjectives '
bonus'.