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Latin
Etymology
From bonus (“good, honest, kind”) + -tās.
Pronunciation
Noun
bonitās f (genitive bonitātis); third declension
- The good quality of something; goodness, excellence.
- Kindness, friendliness, benevolence, benignity, affability; tenderness.
- Good, honest or friendly conduct; virtue, integrity, blamelessness.
Declension
Third-declension noun.
Descendants
References
- “bonitas”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “bonitas”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- bonitas in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
- bonitas in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
- kindheartedness: bonitas (Fin. 5. 29. 65)
- innate goodness, kindness: naturae bonitas (Off. 1. 32. 118)
Portuguese
Adjective
bonitas
- feminine plural of bonito
Spanish
Adjective
bonitas
- feminine plural of bonito