The corpus record — Latin

belligero

belligero · v. a

to wage

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Where it lives

Cum Populo Gratias Egit 1 · 3.79/10k
Truculentus 2 · 2.44/10k
Captivi 2 · 2.31/10k
Hercules 1 · 1.31/10k
Persa 1 · 1.27/10k
Punica 6 · 0.79/10k
Divus Augustus 1 · 0.75/10k
Ars Amatoria 1 · 0.67/10k
Ab urbe condita, books 21-25 - 21 1 · 0.64/10k
De Officiis 1 · 0.3/10k
Annales 2 · 0.23/10k
Epigrammata 1 · 0.18/10k

Densest 12 of 14 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

bellĭgĕro — Lewis & Short

bellĭgĕro, āvi, ātum, 1, v. a. (bellĭ-gĕror, āri, v. dep.,

Hyg. Fab. 274 fin.) [bellum-gero],

I to wage or carry on war, to fight (very rare): nec cauponantes bellum, sed belligerantes, Enn. ap. Cic. Off. 1, 12, 38 (Ann. v. 201 Vahl.); Poët. ap. Quint. 9, 4, 39: postquam belligerant Aetoli cum Aliis, Plaut. Capt. prol. 24; id. Truc. 2, 7, 67: excitandus nobis erit ab inferis quoniam nobis non solum cum his... sed etiam cum fortunā belligerandum fuit, * Cic. Red. Quir. 8, 19 (but ap. Cic. Font. 16, 36, the true read. is in bello gerendo, B. and K.): cum Gallis tumultuatum verius quam belligeratum, Liv. 21, 16, 4: adversum accolas, Tac. A. 4, 46; 2, 5; 3, 73; Suet. Aug. 94.—

II Trop.: cum Geniis suis, Plaut. Truc. 1, 2, 81: cum fortunā, Cic. Red. Quir. 8, 21.

In the wild

belligeratum Livy, Ab urbe condita, books 21-25 - 21 p16
belligerant Plautus, Captivi prologue.pr
belligeratum Livy, Ab urbe condita 2.21.16.4
belligera Silius Italicus, Punica 2.168
belligeratum Tacitus, Annales 3.p73
belligerauerant Suetonius, Divus Augustus 94.2

6 of 22 attestations shown.

Where it came from

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