bonus

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin bonus (“good”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈbəʊ.nəs/
• Rhymes: -əʊnəs
• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈboʊ.nəs/
• Rhymes: -oʊnəs

Noun

bonus (plural bonuses or boni)

1. Something extra that is good; an added benefit.
2. An extra sum given as a premium, e.g. to an employee.
   • 2013 June 22, “Engineers of a different kind”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8841, page 70:

     Private-equity nabobs bristle at being dubbed mere financiers. […] Much of their pleading is public-relations bluster. Clever financial ploys are what have made billionaires of the industry’s veterans. “Operational improvement” in a portfolio company has often meant little more than promising colossal bonuses to sitting chief executives if they meet ambitious growth targets. That model is still prevalent today.

   The employee of the week receives a bonus for his excellent work.

3. (video games) An addition to the player's score based on performance, e.g. for time remaining.
4. (uncountable, basketball) One or more free throws awarded to a team when the opposing team has accumulated enough fouls.

Verb

bonus (third-person singular simple present bonuses, present participle bonusing, simple past and past participle bonused)

1. (transitive) To pay a bonus, premium

Anagrams

• Bonsu, bo'sun, bosun, bouns

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin bonus (“good”).

Pronunciation

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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

Etymology

Borrowed from English bonus or Latin bonus.

Noun

bonus

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

Etymology

Borrowed from 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

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin bonus. Compare the inherited doublet buono (“good”).

Noun

bonus m (invariable)

1. A bonus (all senses)

Etymology

From Old Latin duenos, later duonus, from Proto-Italic *dwenos, from Proto-Indo-European *dew- (“to show favor, revere”). Some relate it to Ancient Greek δέος (déos), whence δεινός (deinós), δειλός (deilós). Compare the change from duellum to bellum (“war”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈbo.nus/, [ˈbɔ.nʊs]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈbo.nus/, [ˈboː.nus]

• Audio (Ecclesiastical)

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Adjective

bonus (feminine bona, neuter bonum, comparative melior, superlative optimus or optumus); first/second declension

1. good, honest, brave, noble, kind, pleasant

   Antonym: malus

2. right
3. useful
4. valid
5. healthy

Noun

bonus m (genitive bonī); second declension

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

References

• 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, 1883–1887)
• bonus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• Carl Meissner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co.
  • to be robust, vigorous: bonis esse viribus
    
  • who gets the advantage from this? who is the interested party: cui bono?
    
  • moral science; ethics: philosophia, in qua de bonis rebus et malis, deque hominum vita et moribus disputatur
    
  • to have good lungs: bonis lateribus esse
    
  • to be brave, courageous: bono animo esse
    
  • (ambiguous) to possess means, to be well off: rem or opes habere, bona possidere, in bonis esse
    
  • to be very rich: opibus, divitiis, bonis, facultatibus abundare
    
  • to drive a person out of house and home: evertere aliquem bonis, fortunis patriis
    
  • disinherited: exheres paternorum bonorum (De Or. 1. 38. 175)
    
  • the aristocracy (as a party in politics): boni cives, optimi, optimates, also simply boni (opp. improbi); illi, qui optimatium causam agunt
    
  • justly and equitably: ex aequo et bono (Caecin. 23. 65)
    
  • (ambiguous) to meet with good weather: tempestatem idoneam, bonam nancisci
    
  • (ambiguous) to enjoy good health: bona (firma, prospera) valetudine esse or uti (vid. sect. VI. 8., note uti...)
    
  • (ambiguous) to reward amply; to give manifold recompense for: bonam (praeclaram) gratiam referre
    
  • (ambiguous) to have a good or bad reputation, be spoken well, ill of: bona, mala existimatio est de aliquo
    
  • (ambiguous) to be gifted, talented (not praeditum esse by itself): bona indole (always in sing.) praeditum esse
    
  • (ambiguous) he is a young man of great promise: adulescens alios bene de se sperare iubet, bonam spem ostendit or alii de adulescente bene sperare possunt
    
  • (ambiguous) to take a thing in good (bad) part: in bonam (malam) partem accipere aliquid
    
  • (ambiguous) to be brave, courageous: bonum animum habere
    
  • (ambiguous) to consider virtue the highest good: summum bonum in virtute ponere
    
  • (ambiguous) natural advantages: naturae bona
    
  • (ambiguous) to recover one's reason, be reasonable again: ad bonam frugem se recipere
    
  • (ambiguous) may heaven's blessing rest on it: quod bonum, faustum, felix, fortunatumque sit! (Div. 1. 45. 102)
    
  • (ambiguous) to bless (curse) a person: precari alicui bene (male) or omnia bona (mala), salutem
    
  • (ambiguous) to possess means, to be well off: rem or opes habere, bona possidere, in bonis esse
    
  • (ambiguous) to squander all one's property: lacerare bona sua (Verr. 3. 70. 164)
    
  • (ambiguous) to confiscate a person's property: bona alicuius publicare (B. G. 5. 54)
    
  • (ambiguous) to restore to a person his confiscated property: bona alicui restituere
    
  • (ambiguous) allow me to say: bona (cum) venia tua dixerim
    

Further reading

• bonus in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press

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.

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.

Etymology

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

Noun

bonus m (plural bonus)

1. bonus