Bonaventure

English

Etymology

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Proper noun

Bonaventure (countable and uncountable, plural Bonaventures)

1. A male given name from Latin.
2. A surname transferred from the given name.
3. A regional county municipality and city therein, in Gaspésie–Îles-de-la-Madeleine region, Quebec, Canada.

Translations

male given name

• Afrikaans: Bonaventura
• Albanian: Bonaventura
• Basque: Bonaventura
• Bavarian: Bonaventura
• Bulgarian: Бонавентура m (Bonaventura)
• Catalan: Bonaventura
• Czech: Bonaventura m
• Danish: Bonaventura
• Dutch: Bonaventura
• Esperanto: Bonaventura
• Estonian: Bonaventura
• Finnish: Bonaventura
• French: Bonaventure (fr) m
• Galician: Boaventura (gl)
• German: Bonaventura (de)
• Hebrew: בונוונטורה m
• Hungarian: Bonaventura (hu)
• Indonesian: Bonaventura
• Irish: Bonaventure
• Italian: Bonaventura (it) m
• Kazakh: Бонавентура (Bonaventura)
• Latin: Bonaventura m
• Latvian: Bonaventura
• Lithuanian: Bonaventūras
• Malagasy: Bonaventure
• Norwegian: Bonaventura
• Piedmontese: Bonaventura
• Polish: Bonawentura (pl) m
• Portuguese: Boaventura m
• Romanian: Bonaventura m
• Russian: Бонавентура (ru) m (Bonaventura)
• Sardinian: Bonaventura m
• Serbo-Croatian: Bonaventura m, Бонавентура m
• Slovak: Bonaventura m
• Slovene: Bonaventura m
• Spanish: Buenaventura (es) m
• Swahili: Bonaventura
• Swedish: Bonaventura
• Turkish: Bonaventura
• Ukrainian: Бонавентура m (Bonaventura)
• Welsh: Bonaventure

Statistics

• According to the 2010 United States Census, Bonaventure is the 37899^th most common surname in the United States, belonging to 586 individuals. Bonaventure is most common among White (75.94%) and Black/African American (18.26%) individuals.

Further reading

• Hanks, Patrick, editor (2003), “Bonaventure”, in Dictionary of American Family Names, volume 1, New York City: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 190.

French

Etymology

The municipality is named after the city of Bonaventure.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bɔ.na.vɑ̃.tyʁ/
• Hyphenation: Bo‧na‧ven‧ture
• Rhymes: -yʁ

Proper noun

Bonaventure f

1. A regional county municipality of Gaspésie–Îles-de-la-Madeleine, Quebec, Canada.

Derived terms

• Bonaventurien, Bonaventurienne