Buenos Aires

• Buenos Ayres (archaic)

Borrowed from Spanish Buenos Aires, named after an epithet of the Virgin Mary, itself ultimately derived from Aragonese buen ayre (literally “good air”) or derived from Sardinian bonaria. The first English attestation dates to 1764.

• enPR: bwā′nəs âr′ēz, -ī′rĭz, bwĕ′nōs ī′rĕs^[1]
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈbweɪ.nəs ˈɛə.iːz/, /-ˈaɪ.ɹɪz/, /ˈbwɛ.nəʊ ˈaɪ.ɹɛs/

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• (General American, Canada) IPA^(key): /ˈbweɪ.nəs ˈɛɹ.iz/, /-ˈaɪ.ɹɪz/, /ˈbwɛ.noʊ ˈaɪ.ɹɛs/
• (General Australian) IPA^(key): /ˈbwæɪ.nəs ˈeː.iːz/, /-ˈɑe.ɹɪz/, /ˈbwe.nəʉ ˈɑe.ɹes/
• (New Zealand) IPA^(key): /ˈbwæɪ.nəs ˈeə̯.iːz/, /-ˈaɪ.ɹəz/, /ˈbwe.nɐʉ ˈaɪ.ɹes/
• (Scotland) IPA^(key): /ˈbwe.nəs ˈer.iz/, /-ˈaɪ.ɹɪz/, /ˈbwɛ.no ˈaɪ.ɹɛs/
• (India) IPA^(key): /ˈbweː.nos ˈeːʳ.iːz/, /-ˈaj.ɾiz/, /ˈbwe.noː ˈaj.ɾes/
• Hyphenation: Bue‧nos Ai‧res^[1]

Buenos Aires

1. The capital city of Argentina.
   • 2024 October 16, Dan Heching, Manuela Castro, Mauricio Torres, Alli Rosenbloom and Christian Edwards, “Liam Payne, former One Direction member, dies after hotel balcony fall”, in CNN‎^[1]:

     Liam Payne, a former member of the boyband One Direction, has died after falling from the third floor of a hotel in Buenos Aires, Argentina, according to local police. Payne, who was 31, leaves behind his seven-year-old son, Bear.

2. The largest and most populous province in Argentina, part of the Pampas region. Capital city: La Plata.

• John Nourse (Londres) (1764). Navigation Or, the Art of Sailing Upon the Sea: Containing a Demonstration of the Fundamental Principles of this Art Together with All the Practical Rules of Computing a Ship's Way Both by Plain Sailing, Mercator, and Middel Latitude Founded Upon the Foregoing Principles with Many Other Useful Things Hereto Belonging to which are Added Several Necessary Tables.

Buenos Aires ?

1. Buenos Aires (the capital city of Argentina)
2. Buenos Aires (a province of Argentina)

Buenos Aires

1. Buenos Aires (the capital city of Argentina)

• IPA^(key): [buɛnos ajrɛs]
• Hyphenation: Bue‧nos Ai‧res

Buenos Aires n (indeclinable, relational adjective buenosaireský)

1. Buenos Aires (the capital city of Argentina)
2. Buenos Aires (a province of Argentina)

• “Buenos Aires”, in Internetová jazyková příručka (in Czech), 2008–2025

Buenos Aires

1. Buenos Aires (the capital city of Argentina)
2. Buenos Aires (a province of Argentina)

Borrowed from Spanish Buenos Aires.

• IPA^(key): /ˈbʏeː.nɔs ˈaːi.rəs/, /ˌbʏɛ-/, /-reːs/

• Audio:

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• Hyphenation: Bue‧nos Ai‧res

Buenos Aires n

1. Buenos Aires (the capital city of Argentina)
2. Buenos Aires (a province of Argentina)

• (dated) Buenos-Ayres

• IPA^(key): /bɥe.nɔ.z‿ɛʁ/
• (proscribed) IPA^(key): /bwe.no.z‿ɛʁ/

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Buenos Aires ?

1. Buenos Aires (the capital city of Argentina)

• IPA^(key): /ˌbu̯ɛnɔsˈʔaɪ̯rəs/, [buˌɛ-], [ˌbʋɛ-], [-ʁəs]
• IPA^(key): /ˌbɔnɔs-/ (simplified; somewhat common)
• IPA^(key): /ˌbu̯eːnɔs-/ (rare)

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Buenos Aires n (proper noun, genitive Buenos Aires' or (with an article) Buenos Aires)

1. Buenos Aires (the capital city of Argentina)
2. Buenos Aires (a province of Argentina)

Borrowed from Spanish Buenos Aires.

• IPA^(key): /ˈbwɛ.nɔs ˈaj.rɛs/

• Audio:

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• Syllabification: Bue‧nos Ai‧res

Buenos Aires n (indeclinable)

1. Buenos Aires (the capital city of Argentina)
2. Buenos Aires (a province of Argentina)

• Buenos Aires in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• Buenos Aires in Polish dictionaries at PWN

• Hyphenation: Bué‧nos Ai‧res

Buenos Aires ?

1. Buenos Aires (the capital city of Argentina)
2. Buenos Aires (a province of Argentina)

• IPA^(key): [buenɔs ajres]
• Hyphenation: Bue‧nos Ai‧res

Buenos Aires n

1. Buenos Aires (the capital of Argentina)

• “Buenos Aires”, in Slovníkový portál Jazykovedného ústavu Ľ. Štúra SAV [Dictionary portal of the Ľ. Štúr Institute of Linguistics, Slovak Academy of Science] (in Slovak), https://slovnik.juls.savba.sk, 2003–2025

Named after an epithet of the Virgin Mary, ultimately derived from Aragonese buen ayre (literally “good air”) or derived from Sardinian bonaria.

• IPA^(key): /ˌbwenos ˈaiɾes/ [ˌbwe.nos ˈai̯.ɾes]
• Syllabification: Bue‧nos Ai‧res

Buenos Aires ?

1. Buenos Aires (the capital city of Argentina)

   Synonym: Bs. As.

   • 2024 October 17, CNN, “En imágenes: algunos episodios de la vida de Liam Payne”, in CNN en Español‎^[2]:

     El cantante Liam Payne murió a los 31 años tras caer desde el tercer piso de un hotel de Buenos Aires, Argentina, informó la policía local.

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

2. Buenos Aires (a province of Argentina)

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

Buenos Aires n (genitive Buenos Aires)

1. Buenos Aires (the capital city of Argentina)
2. Buenos Aires (a province of Argentina)