bellicosus

Latin

Etymology

From bellicus ("warlike").

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /bel.liˈkoː.sus/, [bɛlːʲɪˈkoːs̠ʊs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /bel.liˈko.sus/, [belːiˈkɔːs̬us]

Adjective

bellicōsus (feminine bellicōsa, neuter bellicōsum, superlative bellicōsissimus); first/second-declension adjective

1. warlike, fierce, bellicose

Declension

First/second-declension adjective.

	singular				plural
	masculine	feminine	neuter		masculine	feminine	neuter
nominative	bellicōsus	bellicōsa	bellicōsum		bellicōsī	bellicōsae	bellicōsa
genitive	bellicōsī	bellicōsae	bellicōsī		bellicōsōrum	bellicōsārum	bellicōsōrum
dative	bellicōsō	bellicōsae	bellicōsō		bellicōsīs
accusative	bellicōsum	bellicōsam	bellicōsum		bellicōsōs	bellicōsās	bellicōsa
ablative	bellicōsō	bellicōsā	bellicōsō		bellicōsīs
vocative	bellicōse	bellicōsa	bellicōsum		bellicōsī	bellicōsae	bellicōsa

Descendants

• Catalan: bel·licós
• English: bellicose
• French: belliqueux
• Friulian: belicôs
• Galician: belicoso
• Italian: bellicoso
• Portuguese: belicoso
• Romanian: belicos
• Spanish: belicoso

References

• “bellicosus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “bellicosus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• bellicosus in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• bellicosus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.