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Latin
Noun
bellicum n (genitive bellicī); second declension
- signal of attack, battle signal, fight signal (sounded by a war-trumpet to initiate a battle)
- w:Titus Livius
- ubi primum bellicum cani audisset.
- as soon as he heard that the fight signal was being given.
Declension
Second-declension noun (neuter).
Adjective
bellicum
- nominative neuter singular of bellicus
References
- “bellicum”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- bellicum 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)