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From Latin belligerans (“waging war”), present active participle of belligerō (“I wage war”), from belliger (“waging war, warlike”), from bellum (“war”) + -ger (from gerō (“I lead, wage, carry on”)).
belligerent (comparative more belligerent, superlative most belligerent)
- Engaged in warfare, warring.
- Eager to go to war, warlike.
- Of or pertaining to war.
- (by extension) Aggressively hostile, eager to fight.
2019 November 3, Liam de Carme, “Boks, you beauties”, in Sunday Times[1]:
England were not allowed to give their chariot the momentum it had a week ago. It was stopped dead in its tracks by a belligerent Springboks defence that simply refused to yield.
- Acting violently towards others.
- Uncooperative.
- (eager to fight): aggressive, antagonistic, bellicose, combative, contentious, pugnacious, quarrelsome, truculent
engaged in warfare
- Albanian: please add this translation if you can
- Armenian: պատերազմող (hy) (paterazmoġ)
- Belarusian: ваю́ючы (vajújučy)
- Bulgarian: вою́ващ (bg) (vojúvašt)
- Chinese:
- Danish: krigsførende
- Dutch: belligerent (nl), oorlogvoerend (nl)
- Esperanto: please add this translation if you can
- Estonian: sõdiv
- Finnish: sotaakäyvä
- French: belligérant (fr)
- Galician: belixerante
- Georgian: please add this translation if you can
- German: kriegführend (de), Krieg führend (de)
- Hungarian: háborúzó, hadviselő (hu), hadakozó (hu)
- Italian: belligerante (it)
- Latvian: please add this translation if you can
- Lithuanian: please add this translation if you can
- Maori: kaikiri
- Occitan: belligerant (oc)
- Polish: walczący
- Portuguese: beligerante (pt)
- Romanian: beligerant (ro)
- Russian: вою́ющий (ru) (vojújuščij), вражду́ющий (ru) (vraždújuščij)
- Slovak: please add this translation if you can
- Spanish: beligerante (es)
- Swedish: krigförande
- Turkish: please add this translation if you can
- Ukrainian: вою́ючий (vojújučyj)
of or pertaining to war
- Belarusian: вае́нны (vajénny)
- Bulgarian: вое́нен (bg) (voénen)
- Danish: krigs- (da)
- Dutch: oorlogs- (nl), krijgs- (nl)
- Finnish: sota-, sodan (fi) (literally “of war”) (genitive)
- French: bellique (fr)
- Galician: bélico (gl)
- German: Kriegs- (de)
- Italian: bellico (it)
- Latin: bellicus (la)
- Macedonian: воен (voen)
- Norwegian:
- Occitan: bellic
- Polish: wojenny (pl)
- Portuguese: bélico (pt)
- Romanian: de război (ro)
- Russian: вое́нный (ru) (vojénnyj)
- Spanish: bélico (es)
- Swedish: krigs- (sv)
- Ukrainian: воє́нний (vojénnyj)
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belligerent (plural belligerents)
- A state or other armed participant in warfare
The UN sent a treaty proposal to the belligerents.
state or other armed participant in warfare
- Albanian: please add this translation if you can
- Armenian: պատերազմող կողմ (hy) (paterazmoġ koġm)
- Belarusian: ваюючы бок m (vajujučy bok)
- Bulgarian: воюваща страна (vojuvašta strana)
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 交战国 (jiāozhànguó)
- Dutch: belligerent (nl), oorlogvoerende partij
- Esperanto: please add this translation if you can
- Estonian: please add this translation if you can
- Finnish: sodan osapuoli
- French: belligérant (fr) m
- Georgian: please add this translation if you can
- German: Konfliktpartei (de) f
- Hungarian: hadviselő (hu) fél (hu)
- Icelandic: styrjaldaraðili m, deiluaðili m
- Italian: belligerante (it) m
- Japanese: 交戦国 (ja) (kōsen koku) (state), 交戦団体 (ja) (kōsen dantai) (non-state actor)
- Latvian: please add this translation if you can
- Lithuanian: please add this translation if you can
- Old English: wīġbora m
- Polish: strona konfliktu f
- Portuguese: beligerante (pt) m, beligerantes pl
- Romanian: please add this translation if you can
- Russian: воюющая сторона́ (vojujuščaja storoná), уча́стник конфликта (učástnik konflikta)
- Spanish: beligerante (es) m, partes beligerantes f pl, partes enfrentadas f pl
- Thai: คู่สงคราม
- Turkish: please add this translation if you can
- Ukrainian: please add this translation if you can
Borrowed from French belligérant, from Latin belligerēns (“waging war”), present active participle of belligerō (“wage war”), from belliger (“waging war, warlike”), from bellum (“war”) + -ger (from gerō (“wage, carry on”)).
belligerent (comparative belligerenter, superlative belligerentst)
- belligerent, engaged in warfare
Declension of belligerent | ||||
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uninflected | belligerent | |||
inflected | belligerente | |||
comparative | belligerenter | |||
positive | comparative | superlative | ||
predicative/adverbial | belligerent | belligerenter | het belligerentst het belligerentste | |
indefinite | m./f. sing. | belligerente | belligerentere | belligerentste |
n. sing. | belligerent | belligerenter | belligerentste | |
plural | belligerente | belligerentere | belligerentste | |
definite | belligerente | belligerentere | belligerentste | |
partitive | belligerents | belligerenters | — |
belligerent m (plural belligerenten)
- a belligerent, armed party in warfare
belligerent