bienvenido
See also: Bienvenido
Spanish
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Etymology
From Old Spanish bienvenido, corresponding to bien (“well”) + venido (“come”), from the past participle of venir (“to come”). Presumably a calque of a Gothic term, from Proto-Germanic *wiljakwumô (“a welcome guest or arrival”), from which many modern Germanic forms descend, as English welcome.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /bjembeˈnido/ [bjẽm.beˈni.ð̞o]
Audio (Colombia) (file) - Rhymes: -ido
- Syllabification: bien‧ve‧ni‧do
Adjective
bienvenido (feminine bienvenida, masculine plural bienvenidos, feminine plural bienvenidas)
Related terms
Further reading
- “bienvenido”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
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