bon-

(Latin: good)


bon voyage
boon
bounteous
bountiful
bounty
debonair
Ecce quam bonum.
Behold how good.

Motto of The University of the South, Sewanee, Tennessee, USA.

Esto bonus et pius ne sit leo te magis impavidus.
Be good and pious, let not the lion be more undaunted than thou.
Et bonum quo antiquius, eo melius.
The more ancient a good, the better.
ex aequo et bono
According to what is just and good; equitably.

This phrase refers to what a person of principle will do.

In bono vince.
Conquer by good.

Motto of St. Lawrence College, Ramsgate, U.K.

in nullius bonis
Among the goods or property of no person.

Belonging to no person; such as, a treasure-trove and wreck were anciently considered.

magnum bonum
1. Any of several varieties of large cooking plum; such as, magnum bonum plum and can be applied to other qualifying words; for example, magnum bonum health food.
2. Etymology: magnum bonum "a great good", "a large good thing"; from classical Latin magnum, neuter singular of magnus, "great" plus bonum, neuter singular of bonus, "good" after classical Latin summum bonum, "highest good", the "chief or supreme good".
Pro bono humani generis.
For the good of humankind [mankind].

Motto of The Rockefeller University, New York, New York, USA.

pro bono publico
For the public good.

The full phrase for the expression of pro bono in English. There are some attorneys who devote a portion of their working time to legal cases in which they represent the poor or seek redress for public grievances, and a necessary condition of true pro bono work requires forgoing one's customary professional fees.


Related good-word units: agatho-, bene-, eu-.


Word groups that are antonyms of this unit: caco-, dys-, mal-, mis-.


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