From Middle English bounte [and other forms], borrowed from Anglo-Norman bounté and Old French bonté, bontet, bunté (modern French bonté), from Latin bonitās.

• (RP) IPA: /ˈbaʊnti/
• (America) IPA: /ˈbaʊn(t)i/

bounty

1. (uncountable) Generosity; also (countable) an act of generosity.

   Synonyms: liberality, munificence, bounteousness, bountihood

   Antonyms: frugality, parsimony, sparingness, stinginess

   • 1816 June – 1831 October 30, Mary W[ollstonecraft] Shelley, chapter VIII, in Frankenstein: Or, The Modern Prometheus (Standard Novels; IX), 3rd edition, London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, […], →OCLC ↗, [https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=emu.000011593191;view=1up;seq=91 page 73]:

     She embraced Elizabeth and said in a voice of half-suppressed emotion, "Farewell, sweet lady, dearest Elizabeth, my beloved and only friend; may heaven, in its bounty, bless and preserve you; may this be the last misfortune that you will ever suffer! Live, and be happy, and make others so."

2. (countable) Something given liberally; a gift.

   Synonyms: boon, gratuity

3. (countable) A reward for some specific act, especially one given by an authority or a government.
   1. (specifically) A monetary reward for capturing (or, in the past, killing) a person accused or convicted of a crime and who is at large; also, a similar reward for capturing or killing an animal which is dangerous or causing a nuisance.
   2. (military, historical) Money paid to a person when becoming a member of the armed forces, or as a reward for some service therein.
4. (countable, figuratively) An abundance or wealth.
   • 2001, Salman Rushdie, Fury: A Novel, London: Jonathan Cape, →ISBN, page 6 ↗:

     America insulted the rest of the planet, thought Malik Solanka in his old-fashioned way, by treating such bounty with the shoulder-shrugging casualness of the inequitably wealthy.

• boon
• bounteous
• bounteously
• bounteousness

• bounteth, bountith
• bountyhed (obsolete, nonce word)
• unbounteous

• French: don
• German: Geschenk
• Italian: regalo, dono, regalia
• Portuguese: dádiva
• Russian: пода́рок
• Spanish: dádiva, donación (law), obsequio, presente, regalo

• French: prime
• German: Belohnung, Kopfgeld, Prämie
• Italian: premio, ricompensa, taglia
• Portuguese: recompensa
• Russian: вознагражде́ние
• Spanish: recompensa

• French: prime
• German: Heuer
• Italian: ricompensa, paga, ingaggio, premio, premio di arruolamento, compenso, retribuzione

bounty (bounties, present participle bountying; simple past and past participle bountied)

1. (transitive) To offer a monetary reward for the capturing or killing of.