bonus

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English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin bonus (“good”). Doublet of bona.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈbəʊ.nəs/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈboʊ.nəs/
• Rhymes: -əʊnəs

Noun

bonus (plural bonuses or bonusses or (nonstandard) 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

Descendants

• → Danish: bonus
• → French: bonus
• → German: Bonus
• → Portuguese: bónus, bônus (Brazil)
• → Japanese: ボーナス (bōnasu)
• → Turkish: 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

Translations

Anagrams

• Bonsu, bo'sun, bosun, bouns

Czech

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin bonus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈbonus]
• Hyphenation: bo‧nus

Noun

bonus m inan

1. bonus

Declension

Further reading

• “bonus”, in Příruční slovník jazyka českého (in Czech), 1935–1957
• “bonus”, in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého (in Czech), 1960–1971, 1989

Danish

Etymology

Via English bonus from Latin bonus (“good”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈb̥oːnus]

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)

Declension

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin bonus (“good”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈboː.nʏs/
• 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

Descendants

• → Indonesian: bonus
• → Sranan Tongo: bones
  • → Caribbean Javanese: bones

Finnish

Etymology

Borrowed from English bonus or Latin bonus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈbo(ː)nus/, [ˈbo̞(ː)nus̠]
• Rhymes: -onus
• Syllabification^(key): bo‧nus
• Hyphenation^(key): bo‧nus

Noun

bonus

1. bonus (something extra)
2. bonus (extra payment to an employee)

Declension

Synonyms

• (something extra): ekstra, lisäetu, plussa
• (employee bonus): kannustuspalkkio, tulospalkkio

Derived terms

Further reading

• “bonus”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish]‎^[1] (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2023-07-02

French

Etymology

English bonus, from Latin bonus. Compare bon (“good”), a doublet inherited from the same Latin word.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bɔ.nys/

Noun

bonus m (uncountable)

1. premium
2. bonus

Antonyms

• malus

Further reading

• “bonus”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Indonesian

Etymology

From Dutch bonus, from Latin bonus (“good”).

Pronunciation

• (Standard Indonesian) IPA^(key): /ˈbonus/ [ˈbo.nʊs]
• Rhymes: -onus
• Syllabification: bo‧nus

Noun

bonus (plural bonus-bonus)

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

   Synonyms: gratifikasi, insentif

Derived terms

Related terms

Further reading

• “bonus” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.

Italian

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from Latin bonus, either through English or influenced by English. Compare the inherited doublet buono (“good”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈbɔ.nus/
• Rhymes: -ɔnus
• Hyphenation: bò‧nus

Noun

bonus m (invariable)

1. a bonus (all senses)

Latin

Etymology

Inherited from Old Latin duonus, from earlier duenos, from Proto-Italic *dwenos, further etymology uncertain. Possibly cognate with beō (“to bless, gladden”). Possible roots include:

• Proto-Indo-European *dewh₂- (“to join, fit together”); compare Gothic 𐍄𐌰𐌿𐌾𐌰𐌽 (taujan, “to do, make”) and Ancient Greek δύναμαι (dúnamai, “to be able”).
• Proto-Indo-European *deh₃-u, from *deh₃- (“to give”).
• Proto-Indo-European *dew- (“to show favor, revere”)
• Proto-Indo-European *dwey- (“to fear”), source of Ancient Greek δέος (déos), δεινός (deinós), δειλός (deilós).

Compare the change from duellum to bellum, and from duis to bis.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈbɔ.nʊs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈbɔː.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

• bonitās
• cui bonō

Related terms

Descendants

Noun

bonus m (genitive bonī); second declension

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

Declension

Second-declension noun.

References

Further reading

• “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 with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• bonus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎^[2], London: Macmillan and Co.

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.

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from English bonus, itself from Latin bonus. Doublet of bun (inherited from Latin), bon, and bonă (both borrowed from French).

Noun

bonus n (plural bonusuri)

1. bonus

Declension

Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from English bonus, from Latin bonus. Compare the doublet bueno (“good”), inherited from the same Latin word.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈbonus/ [ˈbo.nus]
• Rhymes: -onus
• Syllabification: bo‧nus

Noun

bonus m (plural bonus)

1. bonus

Further reading

• “bonus”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10