belligero
Italian edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from Latin belligerum, form of belliger (“waging war; warlike”).
Pronunciation edit
Adjective edit
belligero (feminine belligera, masculine plural belligeri, feminine plural belligere)
- (literary) belligerent, bellicose
- Synonym: bellicoso
Related terms edit
Further reading edit
- belligero in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
Latin edit
Alternative forms edit
Etymology edit
Pronunciation edit
- (Classical) IPA(key): /belˈli.ɡe.roː/, [bɛlˈlʲɪɡɛroː]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /belˈli.d͡ʒe.ro/, [belˈliːd͡ʒero]
Verb edit
belligerō (present infinitive belligerāre, perfect active belligerāvī, supine belligerātum); first conjugation
Conjugation edit
Descendants edit
- French: belligérer
References edit
- “belligero”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “belligero”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- belligero in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.