bene
English
[edit]Etymology 1
[edit]From Middle English bene, from Old English bēn (“prayer, request, petition, favour, compulsory service”), from Proto-Germanic *bōniz (“supplication”). Cognate with Danish bøn (“prayer”), Swedish bön (“prayer”), Icelandic bæn (“prayer”), Icelandic bón (“request”). Related to ban. See also boon, bee.
Alternative forms
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]- IPA(key): /biːn/
Audio (Southern England): (file)
- Rhymes: -iːn
- Homophones: bean, been
Noun
[edit]bene (plural benes)
- (now chiefly dialectal) A prayer, especially to God; a petition; a boon.
- 1815, William Wordsworth, The Force of Prayer:
- What is good for a bootless bene?
Related terms
[edit]Etymology 2
[edit]Noun
[edit]bene (uncountable)
- Alternative form of benne (“sesame”)
Etymology 3
[edit]UK C16. Probably from Latin bene or Italian bene.
Alternative forms
[edit]Adjective
[edit]bene (comparative benar, superlative benat)
- (obsolete, UK, thieves' cant) Good. [16th–19th c.]
- 1828, Edward Bulwer-Lytton, Pelham: or The Adventures of a Gentleman[1], page 383:
- Egad, you carry a bene blink aloft. Come to the ken alone—no! my blowen; did not I tell you I should bring a pater cove, to chop up the whiners for Dawson?
Synonyms
[edit]- See Thesaurus:good
Derived terms
[edit]- bene bowse
- bene cove
- bene darkmans
- bene feaker
- bene feaker of gybes
- bene lightmans
- bene mort
- beneship
- beneshiply
- cut bene
Noun
[edit]bene (plural benes)
- (obsolete, UK, thieves' cant) Tongue. [16th–18th c.]
- Stowe your bene!
References
[edit]- [Francis Grose] (1788) “Bene”, in A Classical Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue, 2nd edition, London: […] S. Hooper, […], →OCLC.
- Albert Barrère and Charles G[odfrey] Leland, compilers and editors (1889–1890) “bene”, in A Dictionary of Slang, Jargon & Cant […], volume I (A–K), Edinburgh: […] The Ballantyne Press, →OCLC, page 107.
- John S[tephen] Farmer, compiler (1890) “bene”, in Slang and Its Analogues Past and Present. […], volume I, [London: […] Thomas Poulter and Sons] […], →OCLC, pages 178–179.
- Eric Partridge, The Routledge Dictionary of Historical Slang. Routledge, 1973. →ISBN.
Anagrams
[edit]Afrikaans
[edit]Noun
[edit]bene
Corsican
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]bene m
- Alternative form of bè
References
[edit]Dutch
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Verb
[edit]bene
Anagrams
[edit]French
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Audio: (file)
Adverb
[edit]bene
- Synonym of bien
Italian
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Adjective
[edit]bene (invariable)
- upper-class, posh, high
- Parioli è il quartiere bene di Roma per eccellenza.
- Parioli is the posh Rome neighborhood par excellence.
Adverb
[edit]bene (comparative meglio, superlative benissimo)
- well, nicely, OK, right
- Antonym: male
- Non è necessario spendere una fortuna per mangiare bene.
- You don’t need to spend a fortune to eat well.
- properly, correctly, rightly
- Synonym: correttamente
- Antonyms: erratamente, erroneamente
- La mia lavatrice non funziona bene, qualcuno mi può aiutare?
- My washing machine isn't working properly, can anybody help me?
- thoroughly, carefully
- Synonyms: attentamente, minuziosamente
- Leggere bene le istruzioni prima dell'uso.
- Read the instructions carefully before use.
- as much as, as many as
Derived terms
[edit]- alla bene e meglio
- benaccetto / ben accetto
- benalzato / ben alzato
- benarrivato / ben arrivato
- benché
- ben cotto
- ben detto
- bendisposto / ben disposto
- beneamato / bene amato
- benedire
- beneducato / bene educato
- benefattore
- benefico
- benemerente
- benemerito
- bene o male
- beneplacito
- benessere
- benestante
- benestare
- benevolo
- benfatto / ben fatto
- benigno
- beninformato / ben informato
- benintenzionato / ben intenzionato
- beninteso / ben inteso
- benino
- benmeritare
- bennato / ben nato
- benone
- benpensante / ben pensante
- benservito
- bensì
- bentornato / ben tornato
- bentosto / ben tosto
- bentrovato / ben trovato
- benveduto / ben veduto
- ben venga
- benvenuto / ben venuto
- benvisto / ben visto
- ben volentieri
- benvolere
- di bene in meglio
- nota bene
- perbene / per bene
- stare bene
- va bene
- volere bene
Related terms
[edit]Interjection
[edit]bene
- good!; fine!
- Bene! Sono proprio felice che hai avuto delle buone notizie!
- Good! I’m so glad you got some good news!
Noun
[edit]bene m (plural beni)
- good
- Antonym: male
- L'eterna lotta tra il bene e il male.
- The eternal struggle between good and evil.
- (usually in the plural) goods, property, possessions, belongings, assets
- Synonyms: proprietà, possedimenti
- Dopo il suo secondo infarto, Mario vendette tutti i suoi beni ed andò in Nepal.
- Following his second heart attack, Mario had sold all his property and left for Nepal.
- sake, good
- Antonym: male
- Lo faccio per il tuo bene!
- I'm doing this for your sake!
- happiness
- sweetheart, darling, love, bless someone's cotton socks
- asset
Derived terms
[edit]Further reading
[edit]bene on the Italian Wikipedia.Wikipedia it
Latin
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Old Latin *duenēd, from duenos (“good”), which gave bonus, from Proto-Italic *dwenos.
Pronunciation
[edit]- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /ˈbe.ne/, [ˈbɛnɛ]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈbe.ne/, [ˈbɛːne]
Adverb
[edit]bene (comparative melius, superlative optimē)
- well
- Antonym: male
- Tibi bene ex animo volo.
- I wish you well with all my heart.
- properly, exactly
- agreeably, favorably
Derived terms
[edit]Related terms
[edit]Descendants
[edit]- Balkan Romance:
- Dalmatian:
- Italo-Romance:
- North Italian:
- Gallo-Romance:
- Occitano-Romance:
- Ibero-Romance:
- Insular Romance:
References
[edit]- “bene”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “bene”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- bene 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)
- bene in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book[2], London: Macmillan and Co.
- so-and-so is in a very satisfactory position; prospers: agitur praeclare, bene cum aliquo
- the matter progresses favourably, succeeds: aliquid (bene, prospere) succedit or procedit (opp. parum procedere, non succedere)
- for a life of perfect happiness: ad bene beateque vivendum
- to deserve well at some one's hands; to do a service to..: bene, praeclare (melius, optime) mereri de aliquo
- I wish you all success in the matter: bene id tibi vertat!
- you were right in...; you did right to..: recte, bene fecisti quod...
- to have a good or bad reputation, be spoken well, ill of: bene, male audire (ab aliquo)
- a good Latin scholar: bene latine doctus or sciens
- to receive a liberal education: liberaliter, ingenue, bene educari
- 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
- to inculcate good (bad) principles: bene (male) praecipere alicui
- to cross-examine cleverly, put leading questions: bene interrogare
- that Greek proverb contains an excellent lesson: bene illo Graecorum proverbio praecipitur
- to hope well of a person: bene, optime (meliora) sperare de aliquo (Nep. Milt. 1. 1)
- a good conscience: conscientia recta, recte facti (factorum), virtutis, bene actae vitae, rectae voluntatis
- a good conscience: mens bene sibi conscia
- a moral (immoral) man: homo bene (male) moratus
- a sound and sensible system of conduct: vitae ratio bene ac sapienter instituta
- with the help of the gods: dis bene iuvantibus (Fam. 7. 20. 2)
- and may God grant success: quod deus bene vertat!
- to bless (curse) a person: precari alicui bene (male) or omnia bona (mala), salutem
- to manage one's affairs, household, property well or ill: rem bene (male) gerere (vid. sect. XVI. 10a)
- your health: bene tibi or te!
- to entertain, regale a person: accipere aliquem (bene, copiose, laute, eleganter, regio apparatu, apparatis epulis)
- a safe journey to you: bene ambula et redambula
- good men of business: negotii bene gerentes (Quint. 19. 62)
- to buy cheaply: parvo, vili pretio or bene emere
- to have the good of the state at heart: bene, optime sentire de re publica
- a success; a glorious feat of arms: res bene gesta
- to win, lose a fight (of the commander): rem (bene, male) gerere (vid. sect. XII. 2, note rem gerere...)
- I am sorry to hear..: male (opp. bene) narras (de)
- so-and-so is in a very satisfactory position; prospers: agitur praeclare, bene cum aliquo
- “bene”, in The Perseus Project (1999) Perseus Encyclopedia[3]
- “bene”, in William Smith, editor (1854, 1857), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, volume 1 & 2, London: Walton and Maberly
Middle Dutch
[edit]Noun
[edit]bêne
- inflection of bêen:
Middle English
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Old English bēan, from Proto-West Germanic *baunu, from Proto-Germanic *baunō. The final vowel is generalised from the Old English inflected forms.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]bene (plural benes)
Descendants
[edit]References
[edit]- “bēn(e, n.(1).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.
Old English
[edit]Noun
[edit]bēne
- inflection of bēn:
Sardinian
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Latin bene (“well”). Compare Italian bene.
Adjective
[edit]bene
Adverb
[edit]bene
West Makian
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]bene
References
[edit]- Clemens Voorhoeve (1982) The Makian languages and their neighbours[4], Pacific linguistics
- English terms derived from Proto-Indo-European
- English terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *bʰeh₂- (speak)
- English terms inherited from Middle English
- English terms derived from Middle English
- English terms inherited from Old English
- English terms derived from Old English
- English terms inherited from Proto-Germanic
- English terms derived from Proto-Germanic
- English 1-syllable words
- English terms with IPA pronunciation
- English terms with audio links
- Rhymes:English/iːn
- Rhymes:English/iːn/1 syllable
- English terms with homophones
- English lemmas
- English nouns
- English countable nouns
- English dialectal terms
- English terms with quotations
- English uncountable nouns
- English terms derived from Latin
- English terms derived from Italian
- English adjectives
- English terms with obsolete senses
- British English
- English Thieves' Cant
- English terms with usage examples
- Afrikaans non-lemma forms
- Afrikaans noun forms
- Corsican terms with IPA pronunciation
- Corsican lemmas
- Corsican nouns
- Corsican masculine nouns
- Dutch terms with audio links
- Rhymes:Dutch/eːnə
- Rhymes:Dutch/eːnə/2 syllables
- Dutch non-lemma forms
- Dutch verb forms
- French terms borrowed from Italian
- French terms derived from Italian
- French terms with audio links
- French lemmas
- French adverbs
- Italian terms inherited from Latin
- Italian terms derived from Latin
- Italian 2-syllable words
- Italian terms with IPA pronunciation
- Italian terms with audio links
- Rhymes:Italian/ɛne
- Rhymes:Italian/ɛne/2 syllables
- Italian lemmas
- Italian adjectives
- Italian indeclinable adjectives
- Italian terms with usage examples
- Italian adverbs
- Italian interjections
- Italian nouns
- Italian countable nouns
- Italian masculine nouns
- Latin terms derived from Old Latin
- Latin terms inherited from Proto-Italic
- Latin terms derived from Proto-Italic
- Latin 2-syllable words
- Latin terms with IPA pronunciation
- Latin lemmas
- Latin adverbs
- Latin irregular adverbs
- Latin terms with usage examples
- Latin words in Meissner and Auden's phrasebook
- Middle Dutch non-lemma forms
- Middle Dutch noun forms
- Middle English terms inherited from Old English
- Middle English terms derived from Old English
- Middle English terms inherited from Proto-West Germanic
- Middle English terms derived from Proto-West Germanic
- Middle English terms inherited from Proto-Germanic
- Middle English terms derived from Proto-Germanic
- Middle English terms with IPA pronunciation
- Middle English lemmas
- Middle English nouns
- enm:Vegetables
- Old English non-lemma forms
- Old English noun forms
- Sardinian terms inherited from Latin
- Sardinian terms derived from Latin
- Sardinian lemmas
- Sardinian adjectives
- Sardinian adverbs
- West Makian terms with IPA pronunciation
- West Makian lemmas
- West Makian nouns