bellicosus
Latin
Etymology
From bellicus ("warlike").
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /bel.liˈkoː.sus/, [bɛlːʲɪˈkoːs̠ʊs̠]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /bel.liˈko.sus/, [belːiˈkɔːs̬us]
Adjective
bellicōsus (feminine bellicōsa, neuter bellicōsum, superlative bellicōsissimus); first/second-declension adjective
- warlike, fierce, bellicose
Declension
First/second-declension adjective.
| Number | Singular | Plural | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Case / Gender | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | |
| Nominative | bellicōsus | bellicōsa | bellicōsum | bellicōsī | bellicōsae | bellicōsa | |
| Genitive | bellicōsī | bellicōsae | bellicōsī | bellicōsōrum | bellicōsārum | bellicōsōrum | |
| Dative | bellicōsō | 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