Reconstruction:Latin/bonacia
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Latin
[edit]Etymology
[edit]By analogy of malacia (“lull, dead calm”), replacing the unrelated malus (“bad”) with bonus (“good”).
Noun
[edit]*bonacia f (Proto-Italo-Western-Romance)
Descendants
[edit]- Italian: bonaccia
- French: bonace
- Spanish: bonanza
- Venetian: bonazza (see there for further descendants)
References
[edit]- “bonace”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
- bonaccia in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
- “bonanza”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014