bondad

Ladino

Alternative forms

• bondat

Etymology

Inherited from Old Spanish bondat, from Latin bonitātem. By surface analysis, bueno +‎ -dad. Compare Portuguese bondade.

Noun

bondad f (Hebrew spelling בונדאד)

1. goodness

   Antonyms: maldad, malisia

   • 1910, Reuben Eliyahu Israel, Traducsion libera de las poezias ebraicas de Roş Aşana i Kipur‎^[1], Craiova: Institutul Grafic, I. Samitca şi D. Baraş, Socieatate in Comandita, →OCLC, page 10:

     Con tu peiadad azme bondad i bivire
     I no mi apenes sigun io lo meresire.

     With your mercy give me goodness and I shall live, and do not punish me as I shall deserve it.

Spanish

Etymology

Inherited from Old Spanish bondat, from Latin bonitātem. By surface analysis, bueno +‎ -dad. Compare Portuguese bondade.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bonˈdad/ [bõn̪ˈd̪að̞]

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• Rhymes: -ad
• Syllabification: bon‧dad

Noun

bondad f (plural bondades)

1. goodness

   Antonym: maldad

2. good deed
3. affability

   Synonym: afabilidad

Derived terms

• bondadoso

Related terms

• bueno

Further reading

• “bondad”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10