benvido
Meaning
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welcome (whose arrival is a cause of joy)
Frequency
Hyphenated as
ben‧vi‧do
Pronounced as (IPA)
/bɛmˈbido/
Etymology
Inherited from Vulgar Latin *bene venītus, presumably a calque of a Frankish term, derived from Proto-Germanic *wiljakwemô (“a welcome guest or arrival”), from which many modern Germanic forms descend, such as English welcome. By surface analysis, ben (“well”) + vido (“come”).
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