Reconstruction:Latin/bonacia

This Latin entry contains reconstructed terms and roots. As such, the term(s) in this entry are not directly attested, but are hypothesized to have existed based on comparative evidence.

Latin

Etymology

By analogy of malacia (“lull, dead calm”), replacing the unrelated malus (“bad”) with bonus (“good”).

Noun

*bonacia f (Proto-Italo-Western-Romance)

1. lull, dead calm

   Synonym: malacia

Descendants

• Italian: bonaccia
• French: bonace
• Spanish: bonanza
• Venetian: bonazza (see there for further descendants)

References

• “bonace”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
• bonaccia in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
• “bonanza”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014