bellicosissimus
Dictionary entries
- Entry →bellicosus, bellicosa -um, bellicosior -or -us, bellicosissimus -a -um:
Adjective · 1st declension
- Frequency:
- Common
- Dictionary:
- Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
- Field:
- Military
warlike, fierce; fond of war;
nom. sg. (m.)
Examples
Liber XXXVI
Titus Livius (Livy)
"...uilissima genera hominum et seruituti nata; rex ille bellicosissimus et exercitatus iam inde ab iuuenta finitimis Thracum atque..."Germania
Publius Cornelius Tacitus from Minor Works
"...otium transigunt, dediti somno ciboque, fortissimus quisque ac bellicosissimus nihil agens, delegata domus et penatium et agrorum cura..."