bonus

bonus

See also: Bonus, bónus, and bônus

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin bonus (“good”). Doublet of bona.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈbəʊ.nəs/

• Audio (RP)

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• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈboʊ.nəs/
• Rhymes: -əʊnəs

Noun

bonus (plural bonuses or bonusses or boni) ("boni" is nonstandard)

1. Something extra that is good; an added benefit.
2. An extra sum given as a premium, e.g. to an employee or to a shareholder.
   • 2013 June 22, “Engineers of a different kind”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8841, page 70:

     Private-equity nabobs bristle at being dubbed mere financiers. […] Much of their pleading is public-relations bluster. Clever financial ploys are what have made billionaires of the industry’s veterans. “Operational improvement” in a portfolio company has often meant little more than promising colossal bonuses to sitting chief executives if they meet ambitious growth targets. That model is still prevalent today.

   The employee of the week receives a bonus for his excellent work.

3. (video games) An addition to the player's score based on performance, e.g. for time remaining.
   • 1988, David Powell, Rygar (video game review) in Your Sinclair issue 25

     Spend the time killing things and there's a bonus for each hit - but only for fatalities notched up since the start of your current life.

4. (basketball) One or more free throws awarded to a team when the opposing team has accumulated enough fouls.

Derived terms

• baby bonus
• bonus baby
• Bonusgate
• bonus genius
• bonus hole
• bonus-less
• bonus mother
• bonus-point
• double bonus
• no claims bonus
• non-bonus
• signing bonus
• sign on bonus
• sign-on bonus

 

Descendants

• → Danish: bonus
• → French: bonus
• → German: Bonus
• → Portuguese: bónus, bônus
• → Japanese: ボーナス (bōnasu)
• → Turkish: bonus

Translations

something extra that is good

Armenian: բոնուս (hy) (bonus) Basque: gainsari Bulgarian: бонус (bg) m (bonus) Chinese: Mandarin: 額外收獲／额外收获 (éwài shōuhuò) Dutch: bonus (nl) m, extraatje (nl) n Finnish: bonus (fi), lisäetu, ekstra, plussa (fi) French: bonus (fr) m German: Bonus (de) m, Dreingabe (de) f Greek: μπόνους n (bónous) Icelandic: bónus (is) m Italian: bonus (it) m Japanese: おまけ (omake) Polish: bonus (pl) m Portuguese: bónus (pt) m (Portugal), bônus (pt) m (Brazil) Spanish: bono (es) m, bonificación (es) f Swedish: bonus (sv) c Turkish: bonus (tr), ekstra (tr), ilave (tr), ek (tr)

extra amount of money given as a premium

Arabic: عِلَاوَة‎ f (ʿilāwa) Armenian: պարգեւավճար (hy) (pargewavčar) Basque: gainordain Bulgarian: бонус (bg) m (bonus), премия (bg) f (premija) Chinese: Mandarin: 獎金／奖金 (zh) (jiǎngjīn), 紅利／红利 (zh) (hónglì) Dutch: bonus (nl) m, premie (nl) Finnish: bonus (fi), kannustuspalkkio, tulospalkkio French: bonus (fr) m, prime (fr) f German: Bonus (de) m, Prämie (de) f Greek: επιμίσθιο (el) n (epimísthio), μπόνους n (bónous) Greenlandic: bonussi Hungarian: prémium (hu) Icelandic: bónus (is) m Italian: bonus (it) m Japanese: 賞与 (ja) (しょうよ, shōyo), ボーナス (ja) (bōnasu), 褒奨金 (ほうしょうきん, hōshōkin) Korean: 보너스 (ko) (boneoseu) Latin: dōnātīvum n Norwegian: Bokmål: bonus (no) m Nynorsk: bonus m Persian: شتل‎ (fa) (šatal) Portuguese: bónus (pt) m (Portugal), bônus (pt) m (Brazil) Russian: пре́мия (ru) f (prémija), бо́нус (ru) m (bónus), надба́вка (ru) f (nadbávka) Spanish: bonificación (es) f, bono (es) m, prima (es) f, sobresueldo (es) m Swedish: bonus (sv) c, lönebonus c

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Verb

bonus (third-person singular simple present bonuses or bonusses, present participle bonusing or bonussing, simple past and past participle bonused or bonussed)

1. (transitive) To pay a bonus, premium
   • 1949, Land Values Research Group, Reclamation of an Industrial Suburb:

     In its adherence to a system of rating which bonusses the most anti-social owners and penalises those doing something to improve the district, the municipality must accept a large measure of responsibility.

   • 1964, Translations on USSR Labor, United States Joint Publications Research Service, page 22:

     The main bulk of the piece-workers (71%) are bonussed for fulfillment of the production quotas by the section, shop or plant on condition they fulfill the norms.

   • 1991, Bruce S. Elliott, The City Beyond: A History of Nepean, Birthplace of Canada’s Capital, 1792-1990, Corporation of the City of Nepean, →ISBN, page 130:

     Extracting grants called bonusses from municipal councils had become a fine art in the hands of railway promoters, and by the 1870s councils were aware that huge municipal debts could be mounted up by bonussing railway lines that as often as not never materialized.

Anagrams

• Bonsu, bo'sun, bosun, bouns

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Czech

Etymology

From Latin bonus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈbonus]
• Hyphenation: bo‧nus

Noun

bonus m inan

1. bonus

Declension

Declension of bonus

	singular	plural
nominative	bonus	bonusy
genitive	bonusu	bonusů
dative	bonusu	bonusům
accusative	bonus	bonusy
vocative	bonuse	bonusy
locative	bonusu	bonusech
instrumental	bonusem	bonusy

Further reading

• bonus in Příruční slovník jazyka českého, 1935–1957
• bonus in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého, 1960–1971, 1989

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Danish

Etymology

Via English bonus from Latin bonus (“good”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈb̥oːnus]

Noun

bonus c (singular definite bonussen, plural indefinite bonusser)

1. bonus (an extra sum given as a premium, e.g. to an employee or to a shareholder)
2. bonus (an unexpected benefit)
3. bonus (an extraordinary reduction of a price)

Inflection

Declension of bonus

common gender	Singular		Plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	bonus	bonussen	bonusser	bonusserne
genitive	bonus'	bonussens	bonussers	bonussernes

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Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin bonus (“good”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈboː.nʏs/

• Audio

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• Hyphenation: bo‧nus

Noun

bonus m (plural bonussen or boni, diminutive bonusje n)

1. A bonus, an extra or premium.
2. (by extension) Any one-off gain.
3. Good marks in a rating scale, notably to calculate an insurance premium dependent on the number of accidents.

Derived terms

• bonusaandeel
• bonuscultuur
• bonus-malus
• bonuslevel
• bonuspunt
• bonusscore

Descendants

• → Indonesian: bonus
• → Sranan Tongo: bones
  • → Caribbean Javanese: bones

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Finnish

Etymology

Borrowed from English bonus or Latin bonus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈbo(ː)nus/, [ˈbo̞(ː)nus̠]
• Rhymes: -onus
• Syllabification^(key): bo‧nus

Noun

bonus

1. bonus (something extra)
2. bonus (extra payment to an employee)

Declension

Inflection of bonus (Kotus type 39/vastaus, no gradation)
nominative		bonus	bonukset
genitive		bonuksen	bonusten bonuksien
partitive		bonusta	bonuksia
illative		bonukseen	bonuksiin
		singular	plural
nominative		bonus	bonukset
accusative	nom.	bonus	bonukset
	gen.	bonuksen
genitive		bonuksen	bonusten bonuksien
partitive		bonusta	bonuksia
inessive		bonuksessa	bonuksissa
elative		bonuksesta	bonuksista
illative		bonukseen	bonuksiin
adessive		bonuksella	bonuksilla
ablative		bonukselta	bonuksilta
allative		bonukselle	bonuksille
essive		bonuksena	bonuksina
translative		bonukseksi	bonuksiksi
instructive		—	bonuksin
abessive		bonuksetta	bonuksitta
comitative		—	bonuksineen

Possessive forms of bonus (type vastaus)
possessor	singular	plural
1st person	bonukseni	bonuksemme
2nd person	bonuksesi	bonuksenne
3rd person	bonuksensa

Synonyms

• (something extra): ekstra, lisäetu, plussa
• (employee bonus): kannustuspalkkio, tulospalkkio

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French

Etymology

Borrowed from English bonus, from Latin bonus. Compare bon (“good”), a doublet inherited from the same Latin word.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bɔ.nys/

• Audio

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Noun

bonus m (uncountable)

1. premium
2. bonus

Antonyms

• malus

Further reading

• “bonus”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

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Indonesian

Etymology

From Dutch bonus, from Latin bonus (“good”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈbonʊs]
• Hyphenation: bo‧nus

Noun

bonus (first-person possessive bonusku, second-person possessive bonusmu, third-person possessive bonusnya)

1. bonus:
   1. something extra that is good; an added benefit.
   2. an extra sum given as a premium, e.g. to an employee or to a shareholder.

      Synonyms: gratifikasi, insentif

Related terms

• bon

 

Further reading

• “bonus” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Language Development and Fostering Agency — Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic Indonesia, 2016.

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Italian

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from Latin bonus, either through English or influenced by English. Compare the inherited doublet buono (“good”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈbɔ.nus/
• Rhymes: -ɔnus
• Hyphenation: bò‧nus

Noun

bonus m (invariable)

1. a bonus (all senses)

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Latin

Etymology

From Old Latin duenos, later duonus, from Proto-Italic *dwenos, from Proto-Indo-European *dew- (“to show favor, revere”). Cognate with beō.

Some relate it to Ancient Greek δέος (déos), whence δεινός (deinós), δειλός (deilós).

Compare the change from duellum to bellum (“war”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈbo.nus/, [ˈbɔnʊs̠]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈbo.nus/, [ˈbɔːnus]

• Audio (Ecclesiastical)

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Adjective

bonus (feminine bona, neuter bonum, comparative melior, superlative optimus or optumus, adverb bene); first/second-declension adjective

1. good, honest, brave, noble, kind, pleasant

   Antonym: malus

2. right
3. useful
4. valid
5. healthy
6. quality

Declension

First/second-declension adjective.

Number	Singular				Plural
Case / Gender	Masculine	Feminine	Neuter		Masculine	Feminine	Neuter
Nominative	bonus	bona	bonum		bonī	bonae	bona
Genitive	bonī	bonae	bonī		bonōrum	bonārum	bonōrum
Dative	bonō		bonō		bonīs
Accusative	bonum	bonam	bonum		bonōs	bonās	bona
Ablative	bonō	bonā	bonō		bonīs
Vocative	bone	bona	bonum		bonī	bonae	bona

Derived terms

• bonitās
• cui bonō

Related terms

• bellus
• bene (“well”)
• beō

 

Descendants

• Eastern Romance:
  • Aromanian: bun, bunu
  • Istro-Romanian: bur
  • Romanian: bun
• Southern Romance:
  • Sardinian: bonu
• Italo-Dalmatian：
  • Corsican: bonu
  • Dalmatian: bun
  • Italian: buono
  • Sicilian: bonu
• Rhaeto-Romance:
  • Friulian: bon
  • Romansch: bun
• Gallo-Romance:
  • Franco-Provençal: bon
  • Old French: bon, boen, boun, buen, bun
    • Middle French: bon
      • French: bon
    • Picard: boin
    • Walloon: bon
    • → Middle English: boon, bone
      • English: boon
      • Scots: boon
• Occitano-Romance:
  • Old Occitan: bon
    • Occitan: bon
  • Catalan: bo
• Ibero-Romance:
  • Old Leonese:
    • Asturian: bonu, buenu
  • Old Portuguese: bõo
    • Fala: bó
    • Galician: bo
    • Portuguese: bom
  • Old Spanish:
    • Spanish: bueno, bono (Obsolete)
      • → Cebuano: buyno
• Creole:
  • Guinea-Bissau Creole: bon, bo
  • Kabuverdianu: bon
  • Papiamentu: bon
• → English: bonus
  • → Danish: bonus
  • → French: bonus
  • → German: Bonus
  • → Portuguese: bónus, bônus
  • → Japanese: ボーナス (bōnasu)
  • → Turkish: bonus
• → Italian: bonus
• → Spanish: bonus

Noun

bonus m (genitive bonī); second declension

1. A good, moral, honest or brave man
2. A gentleman

Declension

Second-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	bonus	bonī
Genitive	bonī	bonōrum
Dative	bonō	bonīs
Accusative	bonum	bonōs
Ablative	bonō	bonīs
Vocative	bone	bonī

References

• “bonus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “bonus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• bonus 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)
• bonus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette
• Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co.
  • to be robust, vigorous: bonis esse viribus
    
  • who gets the advantage from this? who is the interested party: cui bono?
    
  • moral science; ethics: philosophia, in qua de bonis rebus et malis, deque hominum vita et moribus disputatur
    
  • to have good lungs: bonis lateribus esse
    
  • to be brave, courageous: bono animo esse
    
  • (ambiguous) to possess means, to be well off: rem or opes habere, bona possidere, in bonis esse
    
  • to be very rich: opibus, divitiis, bonis, facultatibus abundare
    
  • to drive a person out of house and home: evertere aliquem bonis, fortunis patriis
    
  • disinherited: exheres paternorum bonorum (De Or. 1. 38. 175)
    
  • the aristocracy (as a party in politics): boni cives, optimi, optimates, also simply boni (opp. improbi); illi, qui optimatium causam agunt
    
  • justly and equitably: ex aequo et bono (Caecin. 23. 65)
    
  • (ambiguous) to meet with good weather: tempestatem idoneam, bonam nancisci
    
  • (ambiguous) to enjoy good health: bona (firma, prospera) valetudine esse or uti (vid. sect. VI. 8., note uti...)
    
  • (ambiguous) to reward amply; to give manifold recompense for: bonam (praeclaram) gratiam referre
    
  • (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) 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
    
  • (ambiguous) to take a thing in good (bad) part: in bonam (malam) partem accipere aliquid
    
  • (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) to recover one's reason, be reasonable again: ad bonam frugem se recipere
    
  • (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
    

Further reading

• “bonus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press

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Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

Borrowed from English bonus or Latin bonus.

Noun

bonus m (definite singular bonusen, indefinite plural bonuser, definite plural bonusene)

1. a bonus

References

• “bonus” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

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Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

Borrowed from English bonus or Latin bonus.

Noun

bonus m (definite singular bonusen, indefinite plural bonusar, definite plural bonusane)

1. a bonus

References

• “bonus” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

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Romanian

Etymology

From English bonus, itself from Latin bonus. Doublet of bun (inherited from Latin), bon, and bonă (both borrowed from French).

Noun

bonus n (plural bonusuri)

1. bonus

Declension

Declension of bonus

	singular		plural
	indefinite articulation	definite articulation	indefinite articulation	definite articulation
nominative/accusative	(un) bonus	bonusul	(niște) bonusuri	bonusurile
genitive/dative	(unui) bonus	bonusului	(unor) bonusuri	bonusurilor
vocative	bonusule		bonusurilor

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Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from English bonus, from Latin bonus. Compare the doublet bueno (“good”), inherited from the same Latin word.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈbonus/ [ˈbo.nus]
• Rhymes: -onus
• Syllabification: bo‧nus

Noun

bonus m (plural bonus)

1. bonus

Further reading

• “bonus”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014