Portuguese

Proper noun

Bona f

1. Bonn (a city in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany)

Synonyms

• Bonn

English

Adjective

bona ‎(comparative more bona, superlative most bona)

1. (Polari) Good.
   • 1966, Kenneth Horne, "Bona Tattoos" in: Round the Horne, series 2

     SANDY: Oh, get him ! The vanity of the man. Well, p'raps not Nelson then. How about reproductions of great masterpieces?

     JULIAN: A bona idea. Now, let me see...

   • 1997, James Gardiner, Who's a pretty boy then?, page 137

     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, 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

     Bona to vada you.

See also

• bona fide

Catalan

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈbɔnə/
• Rhymes: -ɔna

Adjective

bona f

1. feminine singular of bo

Esperanto

Etymology

Common Romance, ultimately from Latin bonus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈbo.na/

Adjective

bona ‎(accusative singular bonan, plural bonaj, accusative plural bonajn)

1. good
   • 1910, L. L. Zamenhof, "Proverbaro Esperanta":

     Mensoganto devas havi bonan memoron.

     A liar has to have a good memory.

Ido

Adjective

bona

1. good

Antonyms

• mala

Related terms

Italian

Adjective

bona f

1. feminine singular of bono

Ladin

Adjective

bona f

1. feminine singular of bon

Latin

Etymology 1

Inflection of the adjective bonus ‎(“good”).

Adjective

bona

1. nominative feminine singular of bonus
2. nominative neuter plural of bonus
3. accusative neuter plural of bonus
4. vocative feminine singular of bonus
5. vocative neuter plural of bonus

bonā

1. ablative feminine singular of bonus

Etymology 2

Feminine of the noun bonus ‎(“a good man”).

Noun

bona f ‎(genitive bonae); first declension

1. A good or brave woman.

Inflection

First declension.

Etymology 3

Inflection of the noun bonum ‎(“a good thing”).

Noun

bona

1. nominative plural of bonum
2. accusative plural of bonum
3. vocative plural of bonum

References

• bona in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• BONA in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• Félix Gaffiot (1934), “bona”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.
• Meissner, Carl; Auden, Henry William (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
  • (ambiguous) to meet with good weather: tempestatem idoneam, bonam nancisci
    
  • (ambiguous) to enjoy good health: bona (firma, prospera) valetudine esse or uti (vid. sect. VI. 8., note uti...)
    
  • (ambiguous) to reward amply; to give manifold recompense for: bonam (praeclaram) gratiam referre
    
  • (ambiguous) to have a good or bad reputation, be spoken well, ill of: bona, mala existimatio est de aliquo
    
  • (ambiguous) to be gifted, talented (not praeditum esse by itself): bona indole (always in sing.) praeditum esse
    
  • (ambiguous) he is a young man of great promise: adulescens alios bene de se sperare iubet, bonam spem ostendit or alii de adulescente bene sperare possunt
    
  • (ambiguous) to take a thing in good (bad) part: in bonam (malam) partem accipere aliquid
    
  • (ambiguous) natural advantages: naturae bona
    
  • (ambiguous) to recover one's reason, be reasonable again: ad bonam frugem se recipere
    
  • (ambiguous) to bless (curse) a person: precari alicui bene (male) or omnia bona (mala), salutem
    
  • (ambiguous) to possess means, to be well off: rem or opes habere, bona possidere, in bonis esse
    
  • (ambiguous) to squander all one's property: lacerare bona sua (Verr. 3. 70. 164)
    
  • (ambiguous) to confiscate a person's property: bona alicuius publicare (B. G. 5. 54)
    
  • (ambiguous) to restore to a person his confiscated property: bona alicui restituere
    
  • (ambiguous) allow me to say: bona (cum) venia tua dixerim
    
• bona in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• bona in William Smith et al., editor (1890) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin

Old High German

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *baunō, whence also Old Saxon bōna, Old English bēan, Old Norse baun. Ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *bʰabʰ-.

Noun

bōna f

1. (botany) A bean

Descendants

• Middle High German: bone
  • German: Bohne

Old Irish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈbona/

Noun

bona

1. genitive singular of bun

Mutation

Old Provençal

Adjective

bona f

1. feminine singular of bon

Old Saxon

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *baunō, whence also Old English bēan, Old Frisian bāne, Old High German bōna, Old Norse baun. Ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *bʰabʰ-.

Noun

bōna f

1. (botany) A bean

Descendants

• Middle Low German: bōne
  • Low German: Bohn
  • Plautdietsch: Boon
  • Saterland Frisian: Boone

Swedish

Etymology 1

Noun

bona

1. definite plural of bo

Etymology 2

Verb

bona

1. to wax or polish a floor

   en hvirflande vals på slottssalens bonade och försåtligt hala parkettgolf.‎

   a whirling walz on the waxed and treacherously slippery parquet floor of the castle hall

2. (rare or archaic) to equip, to decorate, to dress, to wrap (see also ombona)

Conjunction

See also

• böna
• dona
• ombona

Venetian

Adjective

bona f

1. feminine singular of bon

Zulu

Pronoun

bona ‎(combining stem -bo)

1. they, them (class 2)
2. it (class 14)

See also

Verb

-bona

1. (transitive) to see
2. (transitive) to understand, to comprehend
3. (transitive) to recognise
4. (transitive) to seek out, to visit

Conjugation

Derived terms

• -bonana
• -bonela
• -bonisa
• sawubona