bonum

Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈbo.num/, [ˈbɔnʊ̃ˑ]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈbo.num/, [ˈbɔːnum]

Adjective

(deprecated template usage) bonum

1. nominative neuter singular of bonus
2. accusative masculine singular of bonus
3. accusative neuter singular of bonus
4. vocative neuter singular of bonus

Noun

(deprecated template usage) bonum

1. accusative singular of bonus

Noun

bonum n (genitive bonī); second declension

1. A moral good.

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	bonum	bona
Genitive	bonī	bonōrum
Dative	bonō	bonīs
Accusative	bonum	bona
Ablative	bonō	bonīs
Vocative	bonum	bona

References

• “bonum”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• bonum 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)
• bonum in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • (ambiguous) to enjoy good health: bona (firma, prospera) valetudine esse or uti (vid. sect. VI. 8., note uti...)
    
  • (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) 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) 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