bonbon
English
noun
Definitions
- A sweet, especially a small chocolate-covered candy.
- (cooking) A small, spherical savory snack or canapé.
- (AU) A Christmas cracker.
Etymology
Borrowed from French bonbon (ball) derived from Latin bonus (good, honest, kind).
Origin
Latin
bonus
Gloss
good, honest, kind
Concept
Semantic Field
Emotions and values
Ontological Category
Property
Kanji
良, 善
Emoji
🦸 🦸♀️ 🦸♂️
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- bonus English
- bene Latin
- bonitas Latin
- bonus Latin
- duonus Latin
- malus Latin
- perbonus Latin
- Bonbon German
- Bonoso Italian
- bonus Italian
- buono Italian
- bonbon Dutch, Flemish
- bonus Dutch, Flemish
- bonus-malus Dutch, Flemish
- bon French
- bonbon French
- bonbonnière French
- casse-bonbons French
- бонус Russian
- abonar Spanish, Castilian
- bombón Spanish, Castilian
- bonina Spanish, Castilian
- bonito Spanish, Castilian
- buen Spanish, Castilian
- buenas Spanish, Castilian
- bueno Spanish, Castilian
- abonar Portuguese
- bombom Portuguese
- bon Old French
- bombono Esperanto
- bona Esperanto
- bomboană Romanian, Moldavian, Moldovan
- bun Romanian, Moldavian, Moldovan
- bona Ido
- bonbono Ido
- bomm Faroese
- бонбон Bulgarian
- бонус Bulgarian
- abonsina Albanian
- bõo Old Portuguese
- бонбона Macedonian
- bun Aromanian
- abonaçar Occitan
- abonir Occitan
- *dwenos Proto-Italic
- bonu Asturian
- bon Friulian
- bon Old Occitan
- bonu Sicilian
- bon Venetian
- bun Ligurian
- bun Dalmatian
- buna Dalmatian
- bombón Ladino
- bueno Ladino
- בואינו Ladino
- bonussi Kalaallisut, Greenlandic
- bon Bourguignon
- bon Ladin
- duenos Old Latin
- duonus Old Latin
- buono Mirandese
- bon Franco-Provençal
- dipompong Southern Sotho
- bur Istro-Romanian