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bellica

bellica is a Latin form of bellicus, meaning “of war, military”. It is the ablative singular feminine adjective.

Found 45 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Cicero, Pro L. Flacco 64: … tque haec cuncta Graecia, quae fama, quae gloria, quae doctrina, quae plurimis artibus, quae etiam imperio et bellica laude floruit, parvum quendam locum, ut scitis, Europae tenet semperque tenuit, Asiae maritimam oram bello su …

Ovid, Amores 2.3.8: Bellica non dextrae convenit hasta tuae.

All forms of bellicus (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.