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bonus
English
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin bonus (“good”).
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /?b??.n?s/
- Rhymes: -??n?s
- (US) IPA(key): /?bo?.n?s/
- Rhymes: -o?n?s
Noun
bonus (plural bonuses or bonusses or boni)
- Something extra that is good; an added benefit.
- An extra sum given as a premium, e.g. to an employee or to a shareholder.
- (video games) An addition to the player's score based on performance, e.g. for time remaining.
- 1988, David Powell, Rygar (video game review) in Your Sinclair issue 25
- Spend the time killing things and there's a bonus for each hit - but only for fatalities notched up since the start of your current life.
- 1988, David Powell, Rygar (video game review) in Your Sinclair issue 25
- (basketball) One or more free throws awarded to a team when the opposing team has accumulated enough fouls.
Derived terms
- Bonusgate
- signing bonus
Translations
Verb
bonus (third-person singular simple present bonuses or bonusses, present participle bonusing or bonussing, simple past and past participle bonused or bonussed)
- (transitive) To pay a bonus, premium
Descendants
- ? Danish: bonus
- ? French: bonus
- ? German: Bonus
- ? Portuguese: bónus
- ? Japanese: ???? (b?nasu)
Anagrams
- Bonsu, bo'sun, bosun, bouns
Czech
Etymology
From Latin bonus.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [?bonus]
- Hyphenation: bo?nus
Noun
bonus m inan
- bonus
Declension
Further reading
- bonus in P?íru?ní slovník jazyka ?eského, 1935–1957
- bonus in Slovník spisovného jazyka ?eského, 1960–1971, 1989
Danish
Etymology
Via English bonus from Latin bonus (“good”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [?b?o?nus]
Noun
bonus c (singular definite bonussen, plural indefinite bonusser)
- bonus (an extra sum given as a premium, e.g. to an employee or to a shareholder)
- bonus (an unexpected benefit)
- bonus (an extraordinary reduction of a price)
Inflection
Dutch
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin bonus (“good”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?bo?.n?s/
- Hyphenation: bo?nus
Noun
bonus m (plural bonussen or boni, diminutive bonusje n)
- A bonus, an extra or premium.
- (by extension) Any one-off gain.
- Good marks in a rating scale, notably to calculate an insurance premium dependent on the number of accidents.
Derived terms
- bonusaandeel
- bonuscultuur
- bonus-malus
- bonuslevel
- bonuspunt
- bonusscore
Descendants
- ? Indonesian: bonus
Finnish
Etymology
Borrowed from English bonus or Latin bonus.
Noun
bonus
- A bonus (something extra)
- A bonus (extra payment to an employee)
Declension
Synonyms
- (something extra): ekstra, lisäetu, plussa
- (employee bonus): kannustuspalkkio, tulospalkkio
French
Etymology
Borrowed from English bonus, from Latin bonus. Compare bon (“good”), a doublet inherited from the same Latin word.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /b?.nys/
Noun
bonus m (uncountable)
- premium
- bonus
Antonyms
- malus
Further reading
- “bonus” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Indonesian
Etymology
From Dutch bonus, from Latin bonus (“good”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [?bon?s]
- Hyphenation: bo?nus
Noun
bonus
- bonus,
- something extra that is good; an added benefit.
- an extra sum given as a premium, e.g. to an employee or to a shareholder.
- Synonyms: gratifikasi, insentif
Further reading
- “bonus” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia (KBBI) Daring, Jakarta: Badan Pengembangan dan Pembinaan Bahasa, Kementerian Pendidikan dan Kebudayaan Republik Indonesia, 2016.
Italian
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin bonus. Compare the inherited doublet buono (“good”).
Noun
bonus m (invariable)
- A bonus (all senses)
Latin
Etymology
From Old Latin duenos, later duonus, from Proto-Italic *dwenos, from Proto-Indo-European *dew- (“to show favor, revere”). Some relate it to Ancient Greek ???? (déos), whence ?????? (deinós), ?????? (deilós).Compare the change from duellum to bellum (“war”).
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /?bo.nus/, [?b?n?s?]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /?bo.nus/, [?b??nus]
Adjective
bonus (feminine bona, neuter bonum, comparative melior, superlative optimus or optumus, adverb bene); first/second-declension adjective
- good, honest, brave, noble, kind, pleasant
- Antonym: malus
- right
- useful
- valid
- healthy
- quality
Declension
First/second-declension adjective.
Derived terms
- bonit?s
- cui bon?
Related terms
Descendants
Noun
bonus m (genitive bon?); second declension
- A good, moral, honest or brave man
- A gentleman
Declension
Second-declension noun.
References
- bonus in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- bonus in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- bonus in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
- bonus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
- Carl Meissner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book?[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
Further reading
- bonus in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
Norwegian Bokmål
Etymology
Borrowed from English bonus or Latin bonus.
Noun
bonus m (definite singular bonusen, indefinite plural bonuser, definite plural bonusene)
- a bonus
References
- “bonus” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
Norwegian Nynorsk
Etymology
Borrowed from English bonus or Latin bonus.
Noun
bonus m (definite singular bonusen, indefinite plural bonusar, definite plural bonusane)
- a bonus
References
- “bonus” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
Spanish
Etymology
Borrowed from English bonus, from Latin bonus. Compare the doublet bueno (“good”), inherited from the same Latin word.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?bonus/, [?bo.nus]
Noun
bonus m (plural bonus)
- bonus
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benefaction
English
Etymology
From Latin benefacti?nem, from benefacere (“to benefit”).
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /b?n??fak?(?)n/
Noun
benefaction (countable and uncountable, plural benefactions)
- An act of doing good; a benefit, a blessing.
- 1999, Joyce Crick, translating Sigmund Freud, The Interpretation of Dreams, Oxford 2008, p. 70:
- We all feel that sleep is a benefaction [transl. Wohlthat] to our psychical life, and the obscure awareness of the popular mind is clearly unwilling to be robbed of its prejudice that the dream is one of the ways in which sleep confers its benefactions.
- 1999, Joyce Crick, translating Sigmund Freud, The Interpretation of Dreams, Oxford 2008, p. 70:
- An act of charity; almsgiving.
Translations
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