different between leonine vs bellicose

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?li??na??n/

Etymology 1

From Latin le?n?nus (“lion-like”); leo +? -ine.

Alternative forms

• lionine (obsolete)

Adjective

leonine (comparative more leonine, superlative most leonine)

1. Of, pertaining to, or characteristic of a lion.
   • 1887, Thomas Adolphus Trollope, What I Remember, Volume 2, chapter XIV (ebook):

     He [Landor] was a man of somewhat leonine aspect as regards the general appearance and expression of the head and face, which accorded well with the large and massive build of the figure, and to which a superbly curling white beard added not only picturesqueness, but a certain nobility.

Translations

Noun

leonine (plural leonines)

1. (numismatics, historical) A 13th-century coin minted in Europe and used in England as a debased form of the sterling silver penny, outlawed under Edward I.

Etymology 2

Perhaps from Leoninus, a 12th-century canon in Paris, or from Pope Leo II.

Noun

leonine (plural leonines)

1. (poetry) A kind of Latin verse, generally alternate hexameter and pentameter, rhyming at the middle and end.

Anagrams

• Noeline

Italian

Adjective

leonine

1. feminine plural of leonino

Latin

Adjective

le?n?ne

1. vocative masculine singular of le?n?nus

English

Etymology

From Middle English [Term?], from Latin bellicosus.

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /?b?l?ko?s/, /?b?l?ko?s/

Adjective

bellicose (comparative more bellicose, superlative most bellicose)

1. Warlike in nature; aggressive; hostile.
   • 12 July 2012, Sam Adams, AV Club Ice Age: Continental Drift

     The core Ice Age cast—wooly mammoth Manny (Ray Romano), sabertooth tiger Diego (Denis Leary), and sloth Sid (John Leguizamo)—are set adrift, sailing the high seas on a chunk of ice until they collide with a bellicose primate (Peter Dinklage).

2. Showing or having the impulse to be combative.

Synonyms

• See also Thesaurus:combative

Antonyms

• pacific

Related terms

• antebellum
• bellicosity
• bellicism
• belligerent
• Bellona
• postbellum
• rebel
• rebellion

Coordinate terms

• trigger-happy
• warmonger

Translations

Italian

Adjective

bellicose f pl

1. feminine plural of bellicoso

Latin

Adjective

bellic?se

1. vocative masculine singular of bellic?sus

References

• bellicose in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)