bueno

• boenu (Monastir), boene (Monastir), bweno, ueno (Haketía)

Inherited from Old Spanish bueno, inherited from Latin bonus (“good”), from Old Latin duenos, later duonus, from Proto-Italic *dwenos.

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bueno (Hebrew spelling בואינו, feminine buena, masculine plural buenos, feminine plural buenas)

1. good (high quality) [ca. 1510^[1]]

   Synonym: dobro (Balkan)

   Antonym: malo

   Hyponym: mijor

   Coordinate term: bien

   • 1982, Enrique Saporta y Beja, En torno de la torre blanca‎^[1], Editions Vidas Largas, page 28:

     Djugava de oreja, i no tenia buena oreja !

     [Somebody] was playing by ear, and [they] did not have a good ear!

Inherited from Latin bonus (“good”), from Old Latin duenos, later duonus, from Proto-Italic *dwenos.

bueno

1. good (high quality)
   • ca. 1300–1325, anonymous, Cuento muy fermoso de Otas de Roma, (ed. by Herbert L. Baird, Jr., 1976, Madrid: Real Academia Española):

     Desý tomó el cavallo por la rienda, que era muy bueno, e fuélo dar a Esmeré. E Esmeré cavalgó luego e tóvogelo en muy grant merçet, e aguyjó por ese canpo. Grant pavor ovieron griegos quando lo vieron a cavallo.

     Desy took the horse by its reins, as it was very good, and went to give it to Esmere. And Esmere mounted it right away, thanking him greatly, and rode it through the field. The Greeks were in great fear when they saw him on a horse.

2. good (honorable; honourable)
   • c. 1250, anonymous, Poema de Fernán González p. 274, (ed. by Itzíar López Guil, 2001, Madrid: Biblioteca Nueva):

     Quando llegó el conde a su buena conpaña
     falló a sus vassallos todos con fuerte saña,
     maltrayanle tanto que era grand façaña.

     When the count arrived back at his good companions, he found all his vassals strongly against him; they were treating him so badly that it was a feat.

• Ladino: bueno, בואינו
• Spanish: bueno, bono (obsolete), güeno, weno (eye dialect)
  • → Tagalog: buweno

• Ralph Steele Boggs et al. (1946) “bueno”, in Tentative Dictionary of Medieval Spanish, volume I, Chapel Hill, page 83

Borrowed from Spanish bueno. Doublet of bom.

bueno

1. (Rio Grande do Sul) all right; okay; fine

   Synonyms: está bem, tá, tudo bem, está bom, tá bom

   Bueno, tu não precisa vir. ― Okay, you don’t need to come.

2. (Rio Grande do Sul, used at the start of a phrase) well; a short pause in a sentence

   Synonyms: está bem, tá, tudo bem, está bom, tá bom

   Bueno, então olha. ― Well, then look.

Inherited from Old Spanish bueno, inherited from Latin bonus (“good”), from Old Latin duenos, later duonus, from Proto-Italic *dwenos. Doublet of bonus, a later borrowing.

• IPA^(key): /ˈbweno/ [ˈbwe.no]

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• Rhymes: -eno
• Syllabification: bue‧no

bueno (feminine buena, masculine plural buenos, feminine plural buenas, comparative mejor, superlative buenísimo or bonísimo or óptimo)

1. good

   Antonym: malo

   Que tengas una buena noche.

   Have a good night.

   Que tengas un buen viaje.

   Have a good trip.

2. fine

   Synonym: fino

• When used before a masculine noun as part of the noun phrase, the apocopic form buen is used instead of bueno. The term buenas can be used as a greeting with someone familiar or non-formal.

• bono (obsolete)
• güeno, weno (eye dialect)

bueno

1. okay; fine

   Synonyms: vale, de acuerdo, está bien

2. (used at the start of a phrase) well; a short pause in a sentence

   Bueno, pues, mira. ― Well, then, look.

3. (interrogatively, Mexico) expression used when answering the phone, often with the pronunciation /bweˈno/, rather than /ˈbweno/

   Synonyms: aló, diga, dígame, sí

   ¿Bueno? ― Hello?

• (adverb, noun) bien
• (comparative) mejor
• (superlative) bonísimo, buenísimo, óptimo

• → Tagalog: buweno

• “bueno”, 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