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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)

1. Something extra that is good; an added benefit.
2. An extra sum given as a premium, e.g. to an employee or to a shareholder.

3. (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.

4. (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)

1. (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

1. 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)

1. bonus (an extra sum given as a premium, e.g. to an employee or to a shareholder)
2. bonus (an unexpected benefit)
3. 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)

1. A bonus, an extra or premium.
2. (by extension) Any one-off gain.
3. 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

1. A bonus (something extra)
2. 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)

1. premium
2. 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

1. bonus,
   1. something extra that is good; an added benefit.
   2. 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)

1. 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

1. good, honest, brave, noble, kind, pleasant

   Antonym: malus

2. right
3. useful
4. valid
5. healthy
6. quality

Declension

First/second-declension adjective.

Derived terms

• bonit?s
• cui bon?

Related terms

Descendants

Noun

bonus m (genitive bon?); second declension

1. A good, moral, honest or brave man
2. 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)

1. 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)

1. 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)

1. bonus

English

Etymology

From Middle English [Term?], from Old French tribut, from Latin tributum (“tribute”, literally “a thing contributed or paid”), neuter of tributus, past participle of tribuere (“to assign, allot, grant, give, bestow, etc.”), usually derived, from tribus (“tribe”). See tribe.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?t??bju?t/

Noun

tribute (countable and uncountable, plural tributes)

1. An acknowledgment of gratitude, respect or admiration; an accompanying gift.
   • 1751, Thomas Gray, Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard

     the passing tribute of a sigh

   1. An homage made in a body of work to another work or creator.

2. A payment made by one nation to another in submission.

3. Extortion; protection money.
4. A payment made by a feudal vassal to his lord.
5. (mining) A certain proportion of the mined ore, or of its value, given to the miner as payment.
   • 1778, William Pryce, Mineralogia Cornubiensis: A Treatise on Minerals, Mines, and Mining […]

     The setting of a Copper Mine upon tribute , has this difference : the Tributor is at the sole expence of digging , raising , and dressing , all the Ore that can be made merchantable

   • 1852-1866, Charles Tomlinson, Cyclopaedia of Useful Arts and Manufactures

     Tut-work is also employed upon the lode itself, though from the advantages generally considered to arise from the tribute system […]

Synonyms

• heriot

Related terms

• tribe
• tribal
• tributary

Translations

Verb

tribute (third-person singular simple present tributes, present participle tributing, simple past and past participle tributed)

1. (transitive) To pay as tribute.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Whitlock (1654) to this entry?)

Related terms

• attribute
• contribute
• distribute

Further reading

• tribute in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• tribute in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

Anagrams

• burtite, turbite

Latin

Participle

trib?te

1. vocative masculine singular of trib?tus

Portuguese

Verb

tribute

1. first-person singular present subjunctive of tributar
2. third-person singular present subjunctive of tributar
3. first-person singular imperative of tributar
4. third-person singular imperative of tributar

Spanish

Verb

tribute

1. Formal second-person singular (usted) imperative form of tributar.
2. First-person singular (yo) present subjunctive form of tributar.
3. Formal second-person singular (usted) present subjunctive form of tributar.
4. Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted^?) present subjunctive form of tributar.