Bona fide means “in good faith” in Latin. Bona fide also has the noun form bona fides; when someone asks about someone else’s bona fides, it usually means evidence of their qualifications or achievements.
How do you pronounce fide?
found this: The World Chess Federation is better known by its French name: Federation Internationale des Echecs, or, more commonly, its acronym–FIDE (pronounced Fee-day).
Is it bonafide or bona fide?
Bona fide is a Latin phrase meaning “in good faith,” most often used to mean “genuine” today. It is often misspelled as if it were the past tense of an imaginary verb: “bonafy.” The correct spelling is “bonafide.”
