casus belli
English
Etymology
From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin casus (“case”) + belli (“of war”).
Pronunciation
Noun
casus belli (plural casus belli or casus bellis)
- An act seen as justifying or causing a war; act of war.
- 1977, Alistair Horne, A Savage War of Peace, New York Review Books 2006, p. 309:
- Algiers seethed, and this was the casus belli for the ‘ultras’ to attempt a general strike.
- 2002, Colin Jones, The Great Nation, Penguin 2003, p. 138:
- Furthermore, if the French had airily waved away one potential casus belli, more than enough causes of potential conflict remained embedded in the Aix-la-Chapelle Treaty.
- 2010, Christopher Hitchens, Hitch-22, Atlantic 2011, p. 290:
- Had Saddam taken only the Rumaila oil field and the Bubiyan and Warba islands, there would have been no casus belli.
- 1977, Alistair Horne, A Savage War of Peace, New York Review Books 2006, p. 309:
Translations
act causing war
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Italian
Etymology
(deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin
Noun
casus belli m (uncountable)
Portuguese
Etymology
(deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin
Noun
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