bom – Portuguese adjective declension

Portuguese adjective forms of bom

Adjective: bom

Hyphenation:
Singular m.bom
Singular f.boa
Plural m.bons
Plural f.boas

Sample Sentences

  • Esta brisa é boa. (This breeze is pleasant.)
  • Ele é um homem bom. (He is a good man.)
  • boa parte (significant part)

Adjectives inflected like bom

bom,

Etymology

1. Etymology tree
2. Proto-Indo-European *dewh₂-der.?
3. Proto-Italic *dwenos
4. Old Latin duenos
5. Old Latin duonus
6. Latin bonum
7. Old Galician-Portuguese bõo
8. Portuguese bom
9. Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese bõo, inherited from Latin bonus (“good”), from Old Latin duonos, earlier duenos, from Proto-Italic *dwenos. Doublet of bónus /bônus, a later borrowing. Compare Fala and Galician bo, Spanish bueno. See: Latin Adjectives 'bonus', Spanish Adjectives 'bueno'.

Verbs referencing "bom"

Catalan Adjectives bo, Galician Adjectives bo.

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