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bonitas

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Galician

Adjective

bonitas

feminine plural of bonito

Latin

Etymology

From bonus (“good, honest, kind”) +‎ -tās.

Pronunciation

(Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈbɔ.nɪ.taːs]

(modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈbɔː.ni.t̪as]

Noun

bonitās f (genitive bonitātis); third declension

The good quality of something; goodness, excellence.
Kindness, friendliness, benevolence, benignity, affability; tenderness.
Good, honest or friendly conduct; virtue, integrity, blamelessness.

Declension

Third-declension noun.

More information singular, plural ...

Related terms

bonifaciēs
bonifātus
bonimōris
bonum
bonus
bonuscula

Descendants

Aromanian: bunãtati, bunãtate
Asturian: bondá
Catalan: bondat
Franco-Provençal: bontât
Friulian: bontât
Italian: bontà
Occitan: bontat
Old French: bonté
- Anglo-Norman: bounté
  - → English: bounty
- French: bonté
Portuguese: bondade
Romanian: bunătate
Sicilian: buntati
Spanish: bondad
Walloon: bounté

References

“bonitas”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
“bonitas”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
"bonitas", in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
bonitas in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co.
- kindheartedness: bonitas (Fin. 5. 29. 65)
- innate goodness, kindness: naturae bonitas (Off. 1. 32. 118)

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Portuguese

Adjective

bonitas

feminine plural of bonito

Spanish

Adjective

bonitas

feminine plural of bonito

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