bella

bella is a Latin form of bellum, meaning “war”. It is the accusative plural neuter noun or nominative plural neuter noun.

Found 942 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Caesar, De Bello Gallico 1.44.13: Quod si decessisset et liberam possessionem Galliae sibi tradidisset, magno se illum praemio remuneraturum et quaecumque bella geri vellet sine ullo eius labore et periculo confecturum.

Vergil, Aeneid 6.86: sed non et venisse volent. Bella, horrida bella,

Plautus, Asinaria 3.3.674: Nimis bélla es atque amabilis, et si hoc meum esset, hodie

All forms of bellum (declension table)

Source: Socratos (socratos.org), a free reader for Ancient Greek and Latin. Grammar from the Perseus Treebank and Morpheus; dictionary entries from Lewis & Short, A Latin Dictionary (Perseus Digital Library, CC BY-SA). Counts are from the texts on Socratos.