bento

Borrowed from Japanese 弁(べん)当(とう) (bentō). Doublet of biandang.

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈbɛntəʊ/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈbɛnˌtoʊ/

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• Rhymes: -ɛntəʊ
• Hyphenation: ben‧to

bento (plural bento or bentos)

1. (also attributive) A Japanese takeaway lunch served in a box, often with the food arranged into an elaborate design.

   Synonym: bento box

2. Synonym of bento box (“a partitioned, traditionally lacquered, lunchbox in which a Japanese takeaway lunch is served”).
3. (Singapore, by extension) A generic meal packed in a disposable bento box.
   • 2020, Chan Joon Yee, Not Quite Over The Hill: Swinging My Way to 60 and Beyond, Dewdrop Books:

     Typical Singaporean lunch bento wolved down in 5 minutes

4. (graphical user interface) A menu icon of nine squares in a grid.

   Coordinate terms: hamburger, kebab, meatball

5. (graphical user interface) A layout consisting of cards arranged in a modular, irregularly partitioned grid.

   Coordinate term: masonry (layout)

• bentō

• bento box

• bento on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

• T-bone, Boten, Bonet, t-bone

From Ancient Greek βένθος (bénthos, “the depths”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈbento/
• Rhymes: -ento
• Hyphenation: ben‧to

bento (accusative singular benton, plural bentoj, accusative plural bentojn)

1. benthos (The flora and fauna at the bottom of the ocean or other body of water.)

From Japanese 弁当(べんとう) (bentō), from Mandarin 便當／便当 (biàndang, “convenient”).

• IPA^(key): [ˈbɛn.to]
• Hyphenation: bén‧to

bénto (plural bento-bento)

1. bento, a Japanese takeaway lunch served in a box, often with the food arranged into an elaborate design

   Hypernym: bekal

• “bento” 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.

bento

1. Rōmaji transcription of べんと

From Latin ventus.

bento m (plural bentos)

1. wind

• Homophones: Bento, vento (Porto)
• Rhymes: -ẽtu
• Hyphenation: ben‧to

From Old Galician-Portuguese beento, bẽeyto, from Ecclesiastical Latin, Late Latin benedictus, perfect passive participle of Latin benedīcō (“to speak well (of)”). Doublet of bendito, a semi-learned borrowing, and Benedito.

bento (feminine benta, masculine plural bentos, feminine plural bentas)

1. holy, sacred

   água benta ― holy water

• bênção
• benzer

From the name of the founder, Saint Benedict of Nursia (Portuguese: São Bento). Compare Spanish benito.

bento m (plural bentos)

1. Benedictine monk

Borrowed from Japanese 弁(べん)当(とう) (bentō).

• IPA^(key): /ˈbento/ [ˈbẽn̪.t̪o]
• Rhymes: -ento
• Syllabification: ben‧to

bento m (plural bentos)

1. bento