bellicose

English

WOTD – 10 March 2006

Etymology

From Middle English [Term?], from Latin bellicosus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈbɛlɪkoʊs/, /ˈbɛləkoʊs/

Adjective

bellicose (comparative more bellicose, superlative most bellicose)

1. Warlike in nature; aggressive; hostile.
   • 12 July 2012, Sam Adams, AV Club Ice Age: Continental Drift

     The core Ice Age cast—wooly mammoth Manny (Ray Romano), sabertooth tiger Diego (Denis Leary), and sloth Sid (John Leguizamo)—are set adrift, sailing the high seas on a chunk of ice until they collide with a bellicose primate (Peter Dinklage).

2. Showing or having the impulse to be combative.

Synonyms

• See also Thesaurus:combative

Antonyms

• pacific

Related terms

• antebellum
• bellicosity
• bellicism
• belligerent
• postbellum
• rebel
• rebellion

Coordinate terms

• trigger-happy
• warmonger

Translations

warlike in nature

• Bulgarian: войнствен (bg) (vojnstven)
• Danish: krigerisk (da)
• Dutch: vechtlustig (nl)
• Estonian: sõjakas (et)
• Finnish: sotaisa (fi)
• French: belliqueux (fr)
• Galician: bélico (gl) m
• Georgian: მეომარი (meomari), მებრძოლი (mebrʒoli)
• German: kriegerisch (de)
• Greek:

  Ancient: πολεμικός (polemikós)

• Icelandic: herskár m, deilugjarn m, bardagafús m, óeirinn m, errinn m
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• Interlingue:
• Irish:

  Old Irish: cathach

• Italian: bellicoso (it)
• Latin: bellicōsus (la)
• Japanese: 戦争好きな (sensōzuki na), 好戦的な (ja) (kōsenteki na)
• Maori: kaitaua
• Portuguese: bélico (pt) m
• Russian: вои́нственный (ru) (voínstvennyj)
• Tagalog: pinga

having the impulse to be combative

• Bulgarian: войнствен (bg) (vojnstven)
• Dutch: strijdlustig (nl)
• Finnish: riidanhaluinen
• French: belliqueux (fr)
• German: kriegerisch (de)
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• Icelandic: herskár m, bardagafús m
• Italian: combattivo (it), battagliero (it)
• Japanese: 喧嘩っ早い (kenkappayai), 武闘派な (ja) (butōha na)
• Maori: kaitaua
• Russian: вои́нственный (ru) (voínstvennyj)

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Italian

Adjective

bellicose f pl

1. feminine plural of bellicoso

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Latin

Adjective

(deprecated template usage) bellicōse

1. vocative masculine singular of bellicōsus

References

• bellicose 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)