The corpus record — Latin

bellicosus

bellicosus · adj

warlike

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Where it lives

Hamilcar 1 · 19.34/10k
Timoleon 1 · 12.08/10k
Hannibal 1 · 4.89/10k
Severus 1 · 2.37/10k
De Provinciis Consularibus In Senatu 1 · 1.95/10k
de Origine et Situ Germanorum Liber 1 · 1.81/10k
Agamemnon 1 · 1.8/10k
Psychomachia 1 · 1.67/10k
De Imperio Cn. Pompei Ad Quirites 1 · 1.5/10k
Carmina 2 · 1.5/10k
Res Gestae 17 · 1.33/10k
Florida 1 · 1.27/10k

Densest 12 of 43 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

bellĭcōsus — Lewis & Short

bellĭcōsus (duellĭc-), a, um, adj.bellicus,

I warlike, martial, valorous (mostly poet.; usu. of personal subjects; cf. bellicus): gentes immanes et barbarae et bellicosae, Cic. Prov. Cons. 13, 33: bellicosissimae nationes, id. Imp. Pomp. 10, 28; id. Fam. 5, 11, 3; Caes. B. G. 1, 10; 4, 1; Sall. J. 18, 12; Nep. Ham. 4, 1; Hor. C. 2. 11, 1; 3, 3, 57: provincia, Caes. B. C. 1, 85; Quint. 1, 10, 20: civitas, Suet. Gram. 1: fortissimus quisque ac bellicosissimus, Tac. G. 15. —Comp., Liv. 37, 8, 4.—Trop.: quod multo bellicosius erat Romanam virtutem ferociamque cepisse, i. e. fortius, Liv. 9, 6, 13: bellicosior annus, a more warlike year, id. 10, 9, 10 (cf. the opp. imbellis annus, id. 10, 1, 4).—Adv. not in use.

In the wild

bellicoso Livy, Ab urbe condita, books 6-10 - 7 p2
bellicosioremque Livy, Ab urbe condita 2.21.16.3
bellicosissimis Historia Augusta, Severus 18
bellicosum Apuleius, Metamorphoses 10.31
bellicosi Cicero, Epistulae ad Familiares 5.11.3
bellicosa Livy, Ab urbe condita libri, erklärt von M. Weissenborn, books 33-34 - 34 p7

6 of 84 attestations shown.

Where it came from

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