bonazza

Italian

Noun

bonazza f (plural bonazze)

1. looker (attractive young lady)

Venetian

Etymology

Inherited from Vulgar Latin *bonacia.

Noun

bonazza f (uncountable)

1. lull, dead calm, calm sea

   bonazza pachèa ― very calm sea

2. (figurative) peacefulness, tranquility

   Qua son più a la bonazza.

   I feel safer here.

Derived terms

• bonazzar

 

Descendants

• → Albanian: bunacë
• → Greek: μπουνάτσα (bounátsa)
• → Serbo-Croatian: bònaca／бо̀наца

References

• Boerio, Giuseppe (1867) “bonazza”, in Dizionario del dialetto veneziano, 3rd edition, Venice: G. Cecchini, page 90c