different between bellum vs antebellum

Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?bel.lum/, [?b?l?????]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?bel.lum/, [?b?l?um]

Etymology 1

From older form duellum; compare the change from duis to bis.

Noun

bellum n (genitive bell?); second declension

1. war
   • Flavius Vegetius

     S? v?s p?cem par? bellum.

     If you want peace, prepare for war.

   Si omnes opinionibus pugnent non sint bella.

   If everyone should fight for their own convictions there would be no wars.

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter), with locative.

Synonyms

• duellum

Derived terms

• bellicrepus
• bellicus
• bellidux
• bellifer
• belliger
• belligerator
• belligeratio
• bellipotens
• bellisonus

Related terms

• belliger?
• belliger?ns
• bell?

Descendants

• English: antebellum, interbellum, postbellum

Etymology 2

Inflection of bellus (“pretty”).

Adjective

bellum

1. nominative neuter singular of bellus
2. accusative masculine singular of bellus
3. accusative neuter singular of bellus
4. vocative neuter singular of bellus

References

• bellum in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• bellum in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• bellum in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• bellum in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• Carl Meissner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book?^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.

English

Etymology

From the Latin ante bellum (literally “before the war”).

Adjective

antebellum (not comparable)

1. Of the time period prior to a war.

2. In the United States of America, of the period prior to the American Civil War, especially in reference to the culture of the southern states.
   • 2004, James M. Volo, Dorothy Denneen Volo, The Antebellum Period, Greenwood Publishing Group (?ISBN), page 115:

     There was no single characteristic house style during the antebellum period, but the elegant plantation homes built in the American South, with their central entrances, balconies, columns, and formal ballrooms, came closest to representing a discrete architectural style for the period.

Synonyms

• pre-war

Antonyms

• postbellum
• post-war

Translations

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