bellicose

From Middle English [Term?], from Latin bellicosus.

• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈbɛlɪkoʊs/, /ˈbɛləkoʊs/

bellicose (comparative more bellicose, superlative most bellicose)

1. Warlike in nature; aggressive; hostile.
   • 12 July 2012, Sam Adams, AV Club Ice Age: Continental Drift

     The core Ice Age cast—wooly mammoth Manny (Ray Romano), sabertooth tiger Diego (Denis Leary), and sloth Sid (John Leguizamo)—are set adrift, sailing the high seas on a chunk of ice until they collide with a bellicose primate (Peter Dinklage).

2. Showing or having the impulse to be combative.

• See also Thesaurus:combative

• pacific

• antebellum
• bellicosity
• bellicism
• belligerent
• postbellum
• rebel
• rebellion

• trigger-happy
• warmonger

bellicose f pl

1. feminine plural of bellicoso

bellicōse

1. vocative masculine singular of bellicōsus

• bellicose in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)