bona

• bonar

Borrowed from Sabir bona (“good”), from Italian buono (“good”),[en 1] from Latin bonus (“good”), from Old Latin duenos (“good”), from Proto-Italic *dwenos (“good”), from Proto-Indo-European *dew- (“to show favor, revere”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈbəʊnə/
• Rhymes: -əʊnə

bona (comparative more bona, superlative most bona)

1. (Polari) Good.
   • 1966, Hugh Paddick and Kenneth Williams as Julian and Sandy, Bona Tattoos (Round the Horne), season 2, written by Kenneth Horne:

     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, Gardiner, James, 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, Lucas, Ian, “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 Thesaurus:good

• cod (Polari)
• See Thesaurus:bad

• bona omi, bona nochy, bona vardering

bona (comparative more bona, superlative most bona)

1. (Polari) Well.
   • 1967, Hugh Paddick as Julian, Bona Guest House (Round the Horne), season 3, written by Kenneth Horne:

     Order lau your luppers on the strillers bona.

• bona fide

• AONB, Abon, Bano, Oban, baon

• (Balearic, Central) IPA^(key): /ˈbɔ.nə/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /ˈbɔ.na/
• Rhymes: -ɔna

bona f

1. feminine singular of bo

Common Romance, ultimately from Latin bonus.

• IPA^(key): /ˈbo.na/

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• Hyphenation: bo‧na

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.

• malbona (“bad”)

bona

1. good

• mala

bona f

1. Feminine singular of adjective bono.

bona f

1. feminine singular of bon

Inflection of the adjective bonus (“good”).

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

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

bona f (genitive bonae); first declension

1. A good or brave woman.

First declension.

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

bona

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

• 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)
• bona in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• Carl Meissner; Henry William Auden (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

From Proto-Nguni *boná.

boná

1. they, them; class 2 absolute pronoun.

From Proto-Nguni *boná.

boná

1. it; class 14 absolute pronoun.

From Proto-Nguni *-bóná, from Proto-Bantu *-bóna.

-bona^?

1. to see

This verb needs an inflection-table template.

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

bōna f

1. (botany) A bean

• Middle High German: bōne
  • Alemannic German: Bone
  • German: Bohne
  • Luxembourgish: Boun

• IPA^(key): /ˈbona/

bona

1. genitive singular of bun

bona f

1. feminine singular of bon

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-.

bōna f

1. (botany) A bean

• Middle Low German: bōne
  • German Low German: Bohn

    Plautdietsch: Boon

  • → Saterland Frisian: Boone
  • → Westrobothnian: bø̂n

From Proto-Nguni *boná.

boná

1. they, them; class 2 absolute pronoun.

From Proto-Nguni *boná.

boná

1. it; class 14 absolute pronoun.

From Proto-Nguni *-bóná, from Proto-Bantu *-bóna.

-bóna

1. to see

This verb needs an inflection-table template.

bóna (Cyrillic spelling бо́на)

1. (Bosnia, informal) a way of addressing a familiar female

   Alo, bona. Šta radiš? ― Hey. What are you doing?

• bȍlan

• “bona” in Hrvatski jezični portal

From Proto-Nguni *boná.

boná

1. they, them; class 2 absolute pronoun.

From Proto-Nguni *boná.

boná

1. it; class 14 absolute pronoun.

From Proto-Nguni *-bóná, from Proto-Bantu *-bóna.

-bóna

1. to see

This verb needs an inflection-table template.

bona

1. definite plural of bo

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)

• böna
• dona
• ombona

bona f

1. feminine singular of bon

From Proto-Nguni *boná.

• IPA^(key): [ɓoːná]

boná

1. they, them; class 2 absolute pronoun.

From Proto-Nguni *boná.

• IPA^(key): [ɓoːná]

boná

1. it; class 14 absolute pronoun.

From Proto-Nguni *-bóná, from Proto-Bantu *-bóna.

-bôna

1. to see

This verb needs an inflection-table template.

• -bonisa
• -bonisisa

From Proto-Nguni *boná.

• IPA^(key): /ɓoːná/

boná

1. they, them; class 2 absolute pronoun.

From Proto-Nguni *boná.

• IPA^(key): /ɓoːná/

boná

1. it; class 14 absolute pronoun.

From Proto-Nguni *-bóná, from Proto-Bantu *-bóna.

-bôna

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

• -bonela (applicative)
• -bonisa (causative)
• -bonisisa (intensive)
• -bonakala (neuter-passive)
• -bonwa (passive)
• -bonana (reciprocal)
• sawubona
• umabonakude