bellicosus

Latin

Etymology

From bellicus ("warlike").

Pronunciation

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.