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Latin
Etymology
By surface analysis, bene (“well”) + -gnus (“-born”).[1] Compare malignus.
Pronunciation
Adjective
benignus (feminine benigna, neuter benignum, adverb benignē or benigniter); first/second-declension adjective
- kind, good, friendly, pleasant
- Antonym: severus
- beneficent, obliging, bounteous
- (of things) favorable, mild
- (poetic, of things) fruitful, fertile, copious
- (poetic) lucky, propitious
Declension
First/second-declension adjective.
Derived terms
Descendants
References
- ^ De Vaan, Michiel (2008) “gignō”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, pages 260–261
Further reading
- “benignus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “benignus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- benignus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.