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- Latin · derived frombelligerans“waging war”
- English todaybelligerent
From Latin belligerans (“waging war”), present active participle of belligerō (“to wage war”), from belliger (“waging war, warlike”), from bellum (“war”) + -ger (from gerō (“to lead, wage, carry on”)).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.