bellicose
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Middle English bellicose,[1] from Latin bellicosus.
Pronunciation[edit]
- (General American) IPA(key): /ˈbɛlɪkoʊs/, /ˈbɛləkoʊs/
Audio (Southern England) (file)
Adjective[edit]
bellicose (comparative more bellicose, superlative most bellicose)
- Warlike in nature; aggressive; hostile.
- 1996 March 15, James Pringle, “Peking sends out mixed signals”, in The Times[1], number 65,528, →ISSN, →OCLC, Overseas News, page 14, column 8:
- CHINA sent both bellicose and conciliatory signals yesterday as tension continued in the Taiwan Strait over Chinese military exercises and the deployment of US naval battle groups.
- 2012 July 12, Sam Adams, “Ice Age: Continental Drift”, in AV Club:
- 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).
- Showing or having the impulse to be combative.
Synonyms[edit]
- See also Thesaurus:combative
Antonyms[edit]
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Translations[edit]
warlike in nature
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having the impulse to be combative
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References[edit]
- ^ “bellicōse, adj.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, November 2019, retrieved 2021-12-30.
Italian[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
- IPA(key): /bel.liˈko.ze/, (traditional) /bel.liˈko.se/
- Rhymes: -oze, (traditional) -ose
- Hyphenation: bel‧li‧có‧se
Adjective[edit]
bellicose
Latin[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
- (Classical) IPA(key): /bel.liˈkoː.se/, [bɛlːʲɪˈkoːs̠ɛ]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /bel.liˈko.se/, [belːiˈkɔːs̬e]
Adjective[edit]
bellicōse
References[edit]
- 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)
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