bueno

• boenu, boene (Monastir)
• ueno (Haketia)

From Old Spanish, from Latin bonus (“good”).

bueno (Latin spelling, Hebrew spelling בואינו)

1. good

   Synonym: dobro (Balkan)

   Antonym: malo

• mijor

Borrowed from Spanish bueno. Doublet of bom

bueno

1. (Rio Grande do Sul) all right; okay; fine

   Synonyms: está bem, tá, tudo bem, está bom, tá bom

   Bueno, tu não precisa vir. ― Okay, you don't need to come.

2. (Rio Grande do Sul, used at the start of a phrase) well; a short pause in a sentence

   Synonyms: está bem, tá, tudo bem, está bom, tá bom

   Bueno, então olha. ― Well, then look.

Inherited from Old Spanish, inherited from Latin bonus (“good”), from Old Latin duenos, later duonus, from Proto-Italic *dwenos. Doublet of bonus, a later borrowing.

• IPA^(key): /ˈbweno/ [ˈbwe.no]

• Audio:

  (file)

• Rhymes: -eno
• Syllabification: bue‧no

bueno (feminine buena, masculine plural buenos, feminine plural buenas, comparative mejor, superlative buenísimo or bonísimo or óptimo)

1. good

   Antonym: malo

   Que tengas una buena noche.

   Have a good night.

   Que tengas un buen viaje.

   Have a good trip.

2. fine

   Synonym: fino

• When used before a masculine noun as part of the noun phrase, the apocopic form buen is used instead of bueno. The term buenos can be used as a greeting with someone familiar or non-formal.

• bono (good, obsolete)
• güeno, weno (eye dialect)

bueno

1. okay; fine

   Synonyms: vale, de acuerdo, está bien

2. (used at the start of a phrase) well; a short pause in a sentence

   Bueno, pues, mira. ― Well, then, look.

3. (interrogatively, Mexico) Expression used when answering the phone, often with the pronunciation /bweˈno/, rather than /ˈbweno/.

   Synonyms: aló, diga, dígame, sí

   ¿Bueno? ― Hello?

• (adverb, noun) bien
• (comparative) mejor
• (superlative) bonísimo, buenísimo, óptimo

• → Tagalog: buweno

• “bueno”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.7, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2023 November 28