bellicose

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English

WOTD – 10 March 2006

Etymology

From Middle English bellicose, from Latin bellicosus.

Pronunciation

  • (General American) IPA(key): /ˈbɛlɪkoʊs/, /ˈbɛləkoʊs/
    • Audio (Southern England)(file)

Adjective

bellicose (comparative more bellicose, superlative most bellicose)

  1. Warlike in nature; aggressive; hostile.
    • 1996 March 15, James Pringle, “Peking sends out mixed signals”, in The Times‎, 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).
  2. Showing or having the impulse to be combative.

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References

  1. ^ “bellicōse, adj.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, November 2019, retrieved 2021-12-30.

Italian

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /bel.liˈko.ze/, (traditional) /bel.liˈko.se/
  • Rhymes: -oze, (traditional) -ose
  • Hyphenation: bel‧li‧có‧se

Adjective

bellicose

  1. feminine plural of bellicoso

Latin

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Adjective

bellicōse

  1. vocative masculine singular of bellicōsus

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