English
boniform
Boniform comes from Latin bonus ‘good’, and goes back to Proto-Italic *dwenos.
- Proto-Italicc. 1500–700 BCE*dwenos‘good’reconstructed
- Archaic Latinc. 700–75 BCEduenos
- Old Latinc. 700–75 BCEduonus
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEbonus‘good’
- Englishearliest quotation 1667boniform
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed
Earlier history uncertain.
Lineage
- Proto-Italicc. 1500–700 BCE*dwenos‘good’reconstructed
- Archaic Latinc. 700–75 BCEduenos
- Old Latinc. 700–75 BCEduonus
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEbonus‘good’
- Englishearliest quotation 1667boniform
Earliest quotation: 1667, Henry More: “Happiness is not barely to be placed in the…”
Linked words
through Proto-Indo-European *dewh₂- ‘to fit’
down, town, tool, teen, dynamic, dynasty, tow, dun, dynamo, dynastic, tine, taw, beaucoup, beauteous, 90 more
through Proto-Italic *dwenos ‘good’
beautiful, beauty, rebellion, boo, beau, rebellious, bello, rebelling, benefice, bauble, 35 more
through Archaic Latin duenos
ben, beneficial, rebel, beneficiary, revel, bene, bellicose, 36 more
through Latin bonus ‘good’
bonus, optimal, optimism, bonnie, boon, bona, bonny, bonbon, 13 more
Today it means
adj Naturally good-moraled.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Proto-Italic *dwenos / boniform