belliger Latin · revision 9877

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=compound|attested=Ovid|origins=la bellum, la gerō}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * IPA (Classical): [ˈbɛl.lɪ.ɡɛr]^(Wiktionary)

+ * IPA (Ecclesiastical): [ˈbɛl.li.d͡ʒer]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''belliger''' (feminine belligera, neuter belligerum); first/second-declension adjective (nominative masculine singular in -er)^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[af|la|bellum|-ger|t1=war|t2=bearing, waging]].^(OLD 2012)^(TLL)^(Wiktionary) De Vaan notes that ⟨bellum⟩ continues Old Latin [[duellum]], disyllabic in Plautus.^(de Vaan 2008)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ Its earliest source is Ovid.^(Köbler 2010)^(OLD 2012) Köbler dates Ovid 43 BC–18 AD.^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ Poetic, especially post-Augustan, it meant warlike, martial, warring, valiant, as of peoples in Ovid, and of things used in war, battle-, as in Martial.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) Sidonius also has ''bellifer''.^(Gaffiot 2016)

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+ British Medieval Latin used it for warlike, and as a noun a warrior, as in Aldhelm.^(DMLBS) It survives in Spanish ''belígero''.^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * 43 BC–18 AD – Ovid uses it.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 40–102/103 AD – Martial uses it of things.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Adjective===

+ # [[m|en|warlike|alt=Warlike]], [[m|en|martial]].^(OLD 2012)

+ # Of war, battle-.^(OLD 2012)

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+ ===Noun===

+ # ''(Medieval Latin)'' A [[m|en|warrior]].^(DMLBS)

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[bellum]]

+ * [[belligerō]]

+ * [[bellipotēns]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}