Noun: bienvenu
Gender: m
Hyphenation:
| Singular m | bienvenu |
| Singular f | bienvenue |
| Plural m | bienvenus |
Sample Sentences
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Vous êtes le bienvenu (Welcome!)
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Il n'est pas le bienvenu (He's not welcome.)
Nouns inflected like bienvenu
Nigérian,
savant,
soldat,
publiant,
Colombard,
Auvergnat,
Manitobain,
Sahraoui,
youpin,
adjutant-chef,
retraité,
bien-pensant,
plaisantin,
bourrin,
bougnat,
viandard,
survivant,
Dominicain,
coaccusé,
bagnard, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
1. Literally, “well come”, from Old French bienvenu, from Vulgar Latin *bene venūtus, presumably a calque of a Frankish term, from Proto-Germanic *wiljakwemô (“comer, welcome guest”), from which many modern Germanic forms, as in English welcome. Eclipsed Middle French willecomme, from Old French wilecome (“welcome”), borrowed from Middle Dutch willecome or Middle English welcome.
2. Many cognates in other Romance languages, such as Spanish bienvenido, Italian benvenuto and Portuguese bem-vindo. See: Middle English Nouns '
welcome', Italian Nouns '
benvenuto', Portuguese Nouns '
bem-vindo'.
Verbs referencing "bienvenu"
Catalan Nouns
benvinguda.
Translations