bienaventurado

Alternative forms

• byenaventurádo

Etymology

A hybrid of byén, bien (“good”) + ventura (“fortune”) from Old Spanish, likely via a Vulgar Latin *bonaventuratus (“fortunate”), from Latin bonus, bona (“good”) + Latin ventūra (“things to come”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [bjenavẽn̪t̪uˈɾaðo]

Noun

bienaventurado m (Latin spelling, Hebrew spelling ביינאבﬞינטוראדﬞו, plural bienaventurados)

1. blessèd one, the blest

Adjective

bienaventurado m (Latin spelling, Hebrew spelling ביינאבﬞינטוראדﬞו, plural bienaventurados)

1. happy, blessed

   ביינאבﬞינטוראדﬞו איל בﬞארון קי נון אנדה אין קונסיזﬞו די מאלוס.

   Bienaventurado el varon que non anda en consejo de malos.

   Blessed is the man who walks not in the counsel of the wicked.

Etymology

From bien (“good”) + ventura (“fortune”), from Old Spanish, from Latin bona (“good”) + Latin ventūra (“things to come”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bjenabentuˈɾado/ [bje.na.β̞ẽn̪.t̪uˈɾa.ð̞o]
• Rhymes: -ado
• Syllabification: bie‧na‧ven‧tu‧ra‧do

Adjective

bienaventurado (feminine bienaventurada, masculine plural bienaventurados, feminine plural bienaventuradas)

1. blessed

Further reading

• “bienaventurado”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10