bélico
Galician
Etymology
From Latin bellicus.
Adjective
bélico m (feminine singular bélica, masculine plural bélicos, feminine plural bélicas)
- relating to war
Related terms
- belicoso
Further reading
- “bélico” in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega, Royal Galician Academy.
Portuguese
Alternative forms
- bellico (obsolete)
Etymology
Learned borrowing from Latin bellicus.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈbɛ.li.ku/
- Hyphenation: bé‧li‧co
Adjective
bélico (feminine bélica, masculine plural bélicos, feminine plural bélicas)
- (relational) war
Related terms
- belicosidade
- belicoso
- beligerância
- beligerante
Further reading
- “bélico” in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa.
Spanish
Etymology
From Latin bellicus.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈbeliko/ [ˈbe.li.ko]
- Rhymes: -eliko
- Syllabification: bé‧li‧co
Adjective
bélico (feminine bélica, masculine plural bélicos, feminine plural bélicas)
- military, war, warlike (relating to war)
Derived terms
- antibélico
- bélicamente
- belicismo
- belicista
- cine bélico (“war film genre”)
- ficción bélica (“military fiction, war fiction”)
- novela bélica (“war novel”)
Related terms
- belicoso
Further reading
- “bélico”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014