bem-vindo

== Portuguese == === Alternative forms === benvindo (common misspelling) === 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, bem (“well”) +‎ vindo (“come”). === Pronunciation === Homophone: Benvindo === Adjective === bem-vindo (feminine bem-vinda, masculine plural bem-vindos, feminine plural bem-vindas) welcome (whose arrival is a cause of joy) === Interjection === bem-vindo m (masculine plural bem-vindos, feminine singular bem-vinda, feminine plural bem-vindas) welcome === Further reading === “bem-vindo”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2026 “bem-vindo”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026