English
bona
Bona comes from Sabir bona ‘good’, and goes back to Proto-Italic *dwenos.
- Proto-Italicc. 1500–700 BCE*dwenos‘good’reconstructed
- Old Latinc. 700–75 BCEduenos‘good’
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEbonus‘good’
- Italianc. 1300–presentbuono‘good’
- Sabirmodernbona‘good’
- Englishearliest quotation 1966bona
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed deepest recorded ancestor
Earlier history uncertain.
Lineage
- Proto-Italicc. 1500–700 BCE*dwenos‘good’reconstructed
- Old Latinc. 700–75 BCEduenos‘good’
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEbonus‘good’
- Italianc. 1300–presentbuono‘good’
- Sabirmodernbona‘good’
- Englishearliest quotation 1966bona
Earliest quotation: 1966, Kenneth Horne, Bona Tattoos (Round the Horne): “SANDY: Oh, get him! The vanity of the man.…”
Linked words
through Proto-Indo-European *dewh₂- ‘to fit’
down, town, tool, teen, dynamic, rebellion, tow, dynasty, rebellious, dun, dynamo, rebelling, tine, dynastic, benefice, taw, 91 more
through Proto-Italic *dwenos ‘good’
ben, beneficial, rebel, beneficiary, revel, bene, bellicose, beaucoup, beauteous, 38 more
through Old Latin duenos ‘good’
beautiful, beauty, beau, boo, bello, bauble, 3 more
through Latin bonus ‘good’
optimal, bonus, optimism, bonnie, boon, bonny, bonbon, 14 more
Today it means
adj Good.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Proto-Italic *dwenos / bona