bienvenido

See also: Bienvenido

Spanish

Spanish phrasebook

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Etymology

Inherited from Old Spanish bienvenido, inherited from Vulgar Latin *bene venītus, presumably a calque of a Frankish term, derived from Proto-Germanic *wiljakwemô (“a welcome guest or arrival”), from which many modern Germanic forms descend, such as English welcome. By surface analysis, bien (“well”) +‎ venido (“come”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bjembeˈnido/ [bjẽm.beˈni.ð̞o]

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• Rhymes: -ido
• Syllabification: bien‧ve‧ni‧do

Adjective

bienvenido (feminine bienvenida, masculine plural bienvenidos, feminine plural bienvenidas)

1. welcome

Interjection

bienvenido

1. welcome (when saying this to a male)

Related terms

• bienvenida

 

Further reading

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