bonanza

• n. 鉱物帯；幸運；幸運。

スペイン語から。19世紀半ばのゴールドラッシュに沸いたアメリカで流行した言葉。-Anza、-anceと同じ。

bonanza

bonanza: [19] Bonanza entered the language via American English from Spanish, where bonanza means ‘prosperity’, or literally ‘good weather’. It came from an unrecorded general Romance *bonacia, a derivative of Latin bonus ‘good’. (Other English words acquired ultimately from bonus – a descendant of Old Latin duenos – include bonbon [19], bonus [18], boon [14] (as in ‘boon companion’), bounty [13] (from Latin bonitas ‘goodness’), and perhaps bonny [15].) It appears to have been formed on the analogy of Latin malacia, as if this meant ‘bad weather’, from malus ‘bad’, although it in fact originally meant ‘calm at sea’, from Greek malakós.
=> bonbon, bonny, bonus, boon, bounty

bonanza (n.)

1844, American English, from Spanish bonanza "a rich lode," originally "fair weather at sea, prosperity," from Vulgar Latin *bonacia, from Latin bonus "good" (see bene-).

1. The expected sales bonanza hadn 't materialised.

所望のヒットは発生していない。

2.a cash bonanza for investors

投資家のお金を稼ぐ機会

3.Bargain hunters enjoyed a real bonanza today.

安物を買い歩いていた人は今日は幸運に恵まれました。

4.A cash bonanza will be winging its way to the 600000 members of the scheme.

このスキームの60万人のメンバーはすぐに金儲けの機会を得ることができる。

5.South Africa 's gold and mineral bonanza is beginning to tail off.

南アフリカの豊富な金の埋蔵量とその他の鉱業資源は日増しに枯渇している。