bueno

See also: Bueno

Asturian

Etymology 1

Regular eastern variant of bonu.

Alternative forms

güeno (pronunciation spelling)

Adjective

bueno (Eastern)

neuter of buenu

Interjection

bueno

(Eastern) alternative form of bono

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Spanish bueno in Central dialects where the native form is bonu, not to be confused with the regular Eastern variant thereof.

Interjection

bueno

(Central, Castilianism) well
- 1930, Máximo Viejo, Coses Asturianes‎^[1]:
  Pos bueno ye que sepia que abondes consideraciones tuve con VDd., porque a los del pueblu escúpoyos en la cara.
  (please add an English translation of this quotation)
- 2004, Beatriz R. Viado, “Deprender asturianu, abrir una puerta de salida y d’espoxigue al idioma nes escueles del país”, in Les Noticies, number 413:
  Los bichos ocupen bona parte de la clas y descúbrese que toos tienen vaques. Una neña reconoz que «bueno, son de mio guilu», énte l’alvertencia de la compañera, que ta a puntu d’acusala de que nun ye verdá del too qu’ella tenga vaques.
  (please add an English translation of this quotation)

Basque

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish bueno.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /bueno/ [bu.e.no]
Rhymes: -eno, -o
Hyphenation: bu‧e‧no

Interjection

bueno

(Castilianism, Meridional) well

Catalan

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish bueno. Doublet of bo.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): (Northern) [buˈe̞.nu]
IPA^(key): (Balearic, Valencia, Northwestern) [buˈɛ.no]
IPA^(key): (Central) [buˈɛ.nu]

Interjection

bueno

(proscribed, Castilianism, colloquial) well, okay
Synonym: bé

Adverb

bueno

(proscribed, Castilianism, colloquial) well

Galician

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *dewh₂-der.?

Proto-Italic *dwenos

Old Latin duenos

Old Latin duonus

Latin bonus

Old Spanish bueno

Spanish buenobor.

Galician bueno

Borrowed from Spanish bueno. Doublet of bo.

Interjection

bueno

(proscribed, Castilianism) well

Italian

Etymology

Dissimulated from buono or directly derived from bono

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈbwɛ.no/
Rhymes: -ɛno
Hyphenation: buè‧no

Adjective

bueno (feminine buena, masculine plural bueni, feminine plural buene)

(Romanesco, archaic, 1400's) alternative form of buono

Ladino

Alternative forms

boenu (Monastir), boene (Monastir), bweno, ueno (Haketía)

Etymology

Inherited from Old Spanish bueno, inherited from Latin bonus (“good”), from Old Latin duenos, later duonus, from Proto-Italic *dwenos.

Pronunciation

Audio (Istanbul): (file)

Adjective

bueno (Hebrew spelling בואינו, feminine buena, masculine plural buenos, feminine plural buenas)

good (high quality) [ca. 1510^[1]]
Synonym: dobro (Balkan)

Antonym: malo

Hyponym: mijor

Coordinate term: bien
- 1982, Enrique Saporta y Beja, En torno de la torre blanca‎^[2], Editions Vidas Largas, page 28:
  Djugava de oreja, i no tenia buena oreja !
  [Somebody] was playing by ear, and [they] did not have a good ear!

Related terms

References

^ Dov Cohen and Ora (Rodrigue) Schwarzwald (19 June 2019), “Coṃpendio delas šeḥiṭót (Constantinople ca. 1510): The First Judeo-Spanish Printed Publication”, in Journal of Jewish Languages, volume 7, number 1, Leiden: Koninklijke Brill NV, →DOI, →ISSN, pages 48, 50

Old Spanish

Etymology

Inherited from Latin bonus (“good”), from Old Latin duenos, later duonus, from Proto-Italic *dwenos.

Adjective

bueno

good (high quality)
- ca. 1300–1325, anonymous, Cuento muy fermoso de Otas de Roma (ed. by Herbert L. Baird, Jr., 1976, Madrid: Real Academia Española):
  Desý tomó el cavallo por la rienda, que era muy bueno, e fuélo dar a Esmeré. E Esmeré cavalgó luego e tóvogelo en muy grant merçet, e aguyjó por ese canpo. Grant pavor ovieron griegos quando lo vieron a cavallo.
  Desy took the horse by its reins, as it was very good, and went to give it to Esmere. And Esmere mounted it right away, thanking him greatly, and rode it through the field. The Greeks were in great fear when they saw him on a horse.
good (honorable; honourable)
- c. 1250, anonymous, Poema de Fernán González p. 274 (ed. by Itzíar López Guil, 2001, Madrid: Biblioteca Nueva):
  Quando llegó el conde a su buena conpaña
  falló a sus vassallos todos con fuerte saña,
  maltrayanle tanto que era grand façaña.
  When the count arrived back at his good companions, he found all his vassals strongly against him; they were treating him so badly that it was a feat.

Descendants

Ladino: bueno, בואינו
Spanish: bueno, bono, bon (obsolete), güeno, weno (eye dialect)
- → Asturian: (Castilianism, Central) bueno
- → Catalan: (Castilianism) bueno
- → Galician: (Castilianism) bueno
- → Basque: (Castilianism, Meridional) bueno
- → Portuguese: (Rio Grande do Sul) bueno
- → Tagalog: buweno

References

Ralph Steele Boggs et al. (1946), “bueno”, in Tentative Dictionary of Medieval Spanish, volume I, Chapel Hill, page 83

Portuguese

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *dewh₂-der.?

Proto-Italic *dwenos

Old Latin duenos

Old Latin duonus

Latin bonus

Old Spanish bueno

Spanish buenobor.

Portuguese bueno

Borrowed from Spanish bueno. Doublet of bom.

Pronunciation

(Brazil) IPA^(key): /buˈẽ.nu/ [bʊˈẽ.nu], (faster pronunciation) /ˈbwẽ.nu/
- (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /buˈe.no/ [bʊˈe.no], (faster pronunciation) /ˈbwe.no/

(Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈbwɛ.nu/

Interjection

bueno

(Rio Grande do Sul) all right; okay; fine
Synonyms: está bem, tá, tudo bem, está bom, tá bom

Bueno, tu não precisa vir. ― Okay, you don’t need to come.
(Rio Grande do Sul, used at the start of a phrase) well; a short pause in a sentence
Synonyms: está bem, tá, tudo bem, está bom, tá bom

Bueno, então olha. ― Well, then look.

Spanish

Alternative forms

bono, bon (obsolete)
güeno, weno (eye dialect)

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *dewh₂-der.?

Proto-Italic *dwenos

Old Latin duenos

Old Latin duonus

Latin bonus

Old Spanish bueno

Spanish bueno

Inherited from Old Spanish bueno, inherited from Latin bonus (“good”), from Old Latin duenos (later duonus), from Proto-Italic *dwenos. Doublet of bonus, a later borrowing.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈbweno/ [ˈbwe.no]
Audio: (file)
Rhymes: -eno
Syllabification: bue‧no

Adjective

bueno (masculine singular before a noun buen, feminine buena, masculine plural buenos, feminine plural buenas, comparative mejor or más bueno, superlative buenísimo or (dated, formal) bonísimo)

(with ser or (chiefly Latin America, sometimes) estar) good (of good quality)
Antonym: malo

Que tengas una buena noche.
Have a good night.

Que tengas un buen viaje.
Have a good trip.
1. (with ser) good (at/with something) [with para or en or con (see usage notes) or gerund]
  Synonym: also translated with dársele bien
  
  Antonym: malo
(with estar, chiefly Latin America) good (in a good state)
Synonym: bien

Antonyms: malo, mal
(with ser) good (morally)
Near-synonym: bondadoso

Antonyms: malo, malvado, infame

buena persona ― good person

Ella es (una) buena persona. ― She is a good person.
(as ser bueno con, see usage notes) to treat well, be good to
Antonym: ser malo con
(with ser) healthy, good
Synonyms: sano, saludable

Antonyms: malo, dañino, nocivo

El ejercicio es bueno para la salud. ― Exercise is good for your health.
(with estar) (of food) tasty, yummy, good (tasting good)
Synonym: also translated with saber bien

Antonyms: malo, also translated with saber mal

Estos macarrones están muy buenos. ― This macaroni is very good.
(with estar) not sick
Synonyms: bien, aliviado, mejorado, sano

Antonyms: malo, mal, enfermo
(with estar, colloquial) hot, sexy
Esa chica está buenísima. ― That girl is really hot.

Usage notes

When used before a masculine noun as part of the noun phrase, the apocopic form buen is used instead of bueno.
"Ser bueno con algo" can mean one of two things depending on context: "being good at something" and "treating something well/being good to something".
"Ser bueno en", "ser bueno para", and "ser bueno con" are used with different words in the sense of "be good at". Below is a general guideline (the words in parentheses are examples):

bueno en:
1. Games and sports ((el) ajedrez (chess), (el) billar (pool), (el*) Fortnite, (el) fútbol (soccer/football), (el) esquí (skiing), (los) deportes (sports), (los) obbys)
2. Domains of study, knowledge or practice (including school subjects) ((las) matemáticas/(la) matemática (math), (el) inglés (English), física (physics), geografía (geography), historia (history))
3. With infinitives: "Soy muy bueno en hacer videos" ("I'm very good at making videos")
4. With pronouns like "everything", "nothing", etc.: "No soy bueno en nada" ("I'm not good at anything"), "Soy bueno en lo que hago" ("I'm good at what I do") ("No soy bueno con nada" is also possible but only if "nada" refers to a word that would use "con", "bueno en/para nada" is the default)
5. (en can also be used to mean "in" in a sentence that's like "I am good [at X thing (implied)] [when I'm] in Y place", like "Soy bueno en la cocina" ("I'm good at cooking (lit. I'm good in the kitchen)"))
bueno con (usually with something before the word such as a definite article):
1. The rest (el/los volante(s) (the steering wheel/steering wheels), el/los carro(s) (car(s)) las emociones (emotions), el piano (the piano), el balón (the ball), la(s) pistola(s) (the gun/guns), la(s) espada(s) (the sword/swords), la(s) computadora(s) (the computer/computers), la(s) pantalla(s) (the screen/screens), el/los pie(s) (the foot/feet), la(s) pierna(s) (the leg/legs), la(s) mano(s) (the hand/hands), el/los brazo(s) (the arm/arms), el/los cliente(s) (the customer/customers: good at communicating with them, etc.), el/los niño(s) (the kid/kids: good at taking care of them, etc.), los números (numbers, counting, math), las fechas (dates), las palabras (words), los nombres ((remembering) names), las banderas (flags (knowing them))
2. (Latin America) Anything in 1.1 and 1.2
bueno para:
1. Anything you would use bueno en or bueno con for except 1.5 and parts of the body

*with optional article only colloquially

An alternative to bueno en and bueno para with an infinitive is to use a gerund: "Soy bueno haciendo eso" ("I am good at that")

Derived terms

Related terms

Interjection

bueno

okay; fine
Synonyms: vale, de acuerdo, está bien
(used at the start of a phrase) well; a short pause in a sentence
Bueno, pues, mira. ― Well, then, look.
(interrogatively, Mexico) expression used when answering the phone, often with the pronunciation /bweˈno/, rather than /ˈbweno/
Synonyms: aló, diga, dígame, sí

¿Bueno? ― Hello?
Said when one is about to say goodbye/end a conversation.
Bueno... Ya nos vemos.
Well... See you later.
(Latin America) hello

Derived terms

pero bueno

Related terms

(adverb, noun) bien
(comparative) mejor
(superlative) bonísimo, buenísimo, óptimo

Descendants

→ Asturian: (Castilianism, Central) bueno
→ Catalan: (Castilianism) bueno
→ Galician: (Castilianism) bueno
→ Basque: (Castilianism, Meridional) bueno
→ Portuguese: (Rio Grande do Sul) bueno
→ Tagalog: buweno

Asturian

Etymology 1

Alternative forms

Adjective

Interjection

Etymology 2

Interjection

Basque

Etymology

Pronunciation

Interjection

Catalan

Etymology

Pronunciation

Interjection

Adverb

Galician

Etymology

Interjection

Italian

Etymology

Pronunciation

Adjective

Ladino

Alternative forms

Etymology

Pronunciation

Adjective

Related terms

References

Old Spanish

Etymology

Adjective

Descendants

References

Portuguese

Etymology

Pronunciation

Interjection

Spanish

Alternative forms

Etymology

Pronunciation

Adjective

Usage notes

Derived terms

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Interjection

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