Boniface
pronunciation
How to pronounce Boniface in British English:
UK ['bɑnə,fes]
How to pronounce Boniface in American English:
US [ˈbɑnəˌfes]
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- Noun:
- the owner or manager of an inn
Word Origin
- Boniface
- "innkeeper," from Will Boniface, character in George Farquhar's comedy "The Beaux' Stratagem" (1707).Contrary to the common opinion, this name derives not from Latin bonifacius 'well-doer,' but from bonifatius, from bonum 'good' and fatum 'fate.' The change to Bonifacius was due to pronunciation and from this was deduced a false etymology. Bonifatius is frequent on Latin inscriptions. Bonifacius is found only twice and these late (Thesaurus) ["Dictionary of English Surnames"]
Example
- 1. Boniface had to moderate his claims .
- 2. Boniface insisted that the child should not be sacrificed .
- 3. Boniface gave a tree to the people as a symbol of life .
- 4. The festival of all siants dates to may 13 in 609 or 610 , when pope boniface iv consecrated the pantheon at rome .
- 5. A city of central germany southwest of leipzig . Site of an episcopal see founded by saint boniface in the eighth century , it was later a free imperial city and a member of the hanseatic league . Population , 214231 .