bonito

See also: Bonito

English

Sarda sarda, an example of a bonito

Etymology

From Spanish bonito, from Arabic بَيْنِيت‎ (baynīt).

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -iːtəʊ

Noun

bonito (plural bonito or bonitos or bonitoes)

1. Any of various marine fish of the genus Sarda that are related to and resemble the tuna. [from 16th c.]
   • 1808–10, William Hickey, Memoirs of a Georgian Rake, Folio Society 1995, p. 165:

     Mr Scott, the chief mate, being a capital fisherman, the table was almost daily furnished with an albacore, bonito, or dolphin, and not unfrequently with all three, which he struck with a gig.

2. A large tropical fish, the skipjack tuna, allied to the tunny, Katsuwonus pelamis.
   • 2022 October 19, J. Kenji López-Alt, “What Kenji López-Alt Makes His Family for Dinner”, in The New York Times‎^[1]:

     Making dashi is simple once you have katsuobushi (shaved, dried bonito flakes) and kombu (sea kelp), which have become increasingly easy to find across the United States. (You can also order them online.)

3. The medregal (Seriola fasciata), an edible fish of the southern of the United States and the West Indies.
4. The cobia or crab eater (Rachycentron canadum), an edible fish of warm waters globally.

Derived terms

• Australian bonito (Sarda australis)
• Eastern Pacific bonito (Sarda chiliensis chiliensis)
• Pacific bonito (Sarda chiliensis lineolata)
• striped bonito (Sarda orientalis)
• Atlantic bonito (Sarda sarda)
• leaping bonito (Cybiosarda elegans)
• plain bonito (Orcynopsis unicolor)
• large bonito (Katsuwonus pelamis)

Translations

fish of Sarda

• Bulgarian: паламуд (bg) m (palamud)
• Catalan: bonítol (ca) m
• Finnish: sarda (fi)
• Galician: sardino m
• German: Bonito m
• Greek: παλαμίδα (el) f (palamída)

  Ancient: ἀμία m (amía)

• Indonesian: bonito
• Italian: palamita f
• Japanese: 鰹 (ja), カツオ (かつお, katsuo) (commonly written in katakana or kanji)
• Ottoman Turkish: پالامود‎ (palamud), پچوطه‎ (peçuta)
• Romanian: bonită f, pălămidă (ro) f
• Spanish: sarda (es)
• Turkish: torik (tr), palamut (tr)

Katsuwonus pelamis — see skipjack tuna

See also

• skipjack
• tunny

Portuguese

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /boˈni.tu/

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /boˈni.tu/
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /boˈni.to/

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /buˈni.tu/

• Hyphenation: bo‧ni‧to

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Spanish bonito (“pretty, lovely”), a diminutive of bueno (“good”), from Latin bonus (“good”).

Adjective

bonito (feminine bonita, masculine plural bonitos, feminine plural bonitas, comparable, comparative mais bonito, superlative o mais bonito or bonitíssimo, diminutive bonitinho, augmentative bonitão)

1. pretty, lovely

   Synonyms: belo, formoso

   Antonym: feio

Related terms

• bom

Adverb

bonito (comparable, comparative mais bonito, superlative o mais bonito)

1. beautifully, in a beautiful way

   Ela canta bonito ― She sings beautifully

Descendants

• Kabuverdianu: bunitu

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Spanish bonito, from Arabic بَيْنِيت‎ (baynīt).

Noun

bonito m (plural bonitos)

1. various species of fish related to or sharing resemblance with the tuna, such as the albacore and the frigate tuna

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /boˈnito/ [boˈni.t̪o]
• Rhymes: -ito
• Syllabification: bo‧ni‧to

Etymology 1

Diminutive of bueno, without diphthong when "o" is not stressed; see -ito.

Adjective

bonito (feminine bonita, masculine plural bonitos, feminine plural bonitas)

1. pretty, cute
2. nice, lovely, sweet, fine, charming, great

Derived terms

• bonitísimo
• niña bonita

 

See also

• bello
• chulo
• guapo
• hermoso
• lindo
• precioso

 

Etymology 2

From Arabic بَيْنِيت‎ (baynīt).

Noun

bonito m (plural bonitos)

1. (zoology) tuna; bonito
2. (zoology) skipjack

Further reading

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