bonstato
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[edit]Etymology
[edit]bona (“good”) + stato (“condition, state”).
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]bonstato (accusative singular bonstaton, plural bonstatoj, accusative plural bonstatojn)
- prosperity
- 1907, Kabe, chapter 5, in La Faraono, part 2, Hachette, translation of Faraon by Bolesław Prus:
- Jam en la templo de Hator tia insistado ŝajnis al li suspektinda: la milito ja povis liveri al la ŝtato centojn da miloj da sklavoj kaj pligrandigi la bonstaton de la lando.
- Already when in the temple of Hathor, such insistence seemed suspect to him: war could indeed provide the state with hundreds of thousands of slaves and increase the prosperity of the country.