bona
adj.adj. real or genuine. It is often part of the phrase 'bona fide', which describes something that is the real thing and not a fake.
adj. genuine, authentic, or carried out in good faith. Derived from Latin, it most frequently appears as part of the fixed expression 'bona fide'.
He is a bona fide expert in his field.
The museum confirmed that the painting was a bona fide masterpiece from the seventeenth century.
Establishing a bona fide claim to the inheritance required the legal team to produce original documents that had been sealed in a private vault for decades.
Primarily used as part of the compound adjective 'bona fide', which typically precedes the noun it modifies.
a bona fido agreementa bona fide agreementLearners sometimes misspell the Latin ending as 'fido' (the common dog name) instead of 'fide'.