bellicum

Latin

Etymology

Neuter singular of bellicus, perhaps a clipping of bellicum signum.

Noun

bellicum n (genitive bellicī); second declension

1. signal of attack, battle signal, fight signal (sounded by a war-trumpet to initiate a battle)
   • w:Titus Livius

     ubi primum bellicum cani audisset.

     as soon as he heard that the fight signal was being given.

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

	singular	plural
nominative	bellicum	bellica
genitive	bellicī	bellicōrum
dative	bellicō	bellicīs
accusative	bellicum	bellica
ablative	bellicō	bellicīs
vocative	bellicum	bellica

Adjective

bellicum

1. nominative neuter singular of bellicus

References

• “bellicum”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• "bellicum", in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)