bento

• bentō

Borrowed from Japanese 弁(べん)当(とう) (bentō).

• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈbɛntoʊ/
• Rhymes: -ɛntəʊ

bento (plural bento or bentos)

1. A Japanese takeaway lunch served in a box, often with the food arranged into an elaborate design.
2. (graphical user interface) A menu icon of nine squares in a grid.

   Coordinate terms: meatball, kebab, hamburger

• bento box

• Bonet, T-bone, t-bone

From Ancient Greek βένθος (bénthos, “the depths”).

• IPA^(key): [ˈbento]
• Rhymes: -ento
• Hyphenation: ben‧to

bento (accusative singular benton, plural bentoj, accusative plural bentojn)

1. benthos (The flora and fauna at the bottom of the ocean or other body of water.)

From Japanese 弁当(べんとう) (bentō), from Mandarin 便當／便当 (biàndang, “convenient”).

• IPA^(key): [ˈbɛn.to]
• Hyphenation: bén‧to

bénto (first-person possessive bentoku, second-person possessive bentomu, third-person possessive bentonya)

1. bento, a Japanese takeaway lunch served in a box, often with the food arranged into an elaborate design.

   Hypernym: bekal

• “bento” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.

From Latin ventus.

bento m

1. wind

• Homophones: Bento, vento (Porto)
• Rhymes: -ẽtu
• Hyphenation: ben‧to

From Old Galician-Portuguese beento, bẽeyto, from Ecclesiastical Latin, Late Latin benedictus, perfect passive participle of Latin benedīcō (“to speak well (of)”). Doublet of bendito, a semi-learned borrowing, and Benedito.

bento (feminine benta, masculine plural bentos, feminine plural bentas)

1. holy, sacred

   água benta ― holy water

• bênção
• benzer

From the name of the founder, Saint Benedict of Nursia (Portuguese: São Bento). Compare Spanish benito.

bento m (plural bentos)

1. Benedictine monk

Borrowed from Japanese 弁(べん)当(とう) (bentō).

• IPA^(key): /ˈbento/ [ˈbẽn̪.t̪o]
• Rhymes: -ento
• Syllabification: ben‧to

bento m (plural bentos)

1. bento