“war” in Latin

bellum (general term): arma, -orum (arms; metonymy, for bellum): tumultus (disturbance; war that suddenly breaks out, especially near Rome; ☞ Cic., Phil., 5, 19, 33; 8, 1, 2): militia (military service). Offensive war, bellum quod ultro infertur; bellum ultro inferendum (before it is begun), or illatum (when already begun). War of extermination, bellum internecinum (☞ not internecivum); bellum infinitum: to carry on a war of extermination, bellum ad internecionem gerere; bello internecino certare; bellum gerere cum aliquo, uter sit, non uter imperet: war by sea, by land, bellum navale ac maritimum; bellum terrestre: civil war, bellum intestinum; bellum or intestinum ac domesticum; bellum civile: the war round about Mutina, bellum, quod apud Mutinam gestum est: war with the Gauls, bellum Gallicum; bellum cum Gallis gestum: war with pirates, bellum piraticum: war with the tribunes (i. e., a struggle, contest), bellum tribunicium: a war on account of religion, a sacred war, bellum pro religionibus (or pro sacris) susceptum: in war, (in) bello; belli tempore: in war and peace, domi bellique; domo belloque; domi militiaeque (rarely, and only where an especial emphasis is to lie on belli and militiae); also, belli domique; militiae domique: both in war and in peace, et domi et militiae, et domi et belli (rarely, and more poetically, militiaeque domique): either in war or in peace, vel domi vel belli: equally great in war and in peace, magnus bello nec minor pace; non praestantior in armis quam in toga: to meditate war, ad bellum animum intendere; de bello cogitare; ad belli cogitationem se recipere; consilium de bello inire: to seek an occasion of war, bellum quaerere: to find an occasion of war, bellandi causam reperire: to cause, occasion, raise a war, bellum movere, commovere, concitare, excitare; bellum facere; with anybody, alicui; in a country, in aliqua terra: to prepare one’s self for war, bellum parare, apparare, comparare, adornare, or instruere: to threaten anybody with war, bellum alicui minari or minitari (through ambassadors); bellum alicui denunciare (☞ never = to declare war; in Cic., Off., 1, 11, 36, it has the sense here given; ☞ Cic., Phil., 6, 2, 4): to resolve upon war, bellum decernere (of the Senate): bellum jubere (of the people): to declare war against anybody, bellum alicui indicere (also figuratively; e.g., philosophiae): to begin a war, bellum inchoare or incipere; belli initium facere (☞ never bellum capessere in this sense): to enter upon a war, bellum suscipere, with anyone, cum aliquo (also figuratively): ☞ bellum sumere (cum aliquo) is obsolete; Vid: Walch., Tac., Agr., 16, p. 224. To make war upon, bellum or arma alicui (or alicui terrae) inferre (☞ but not in aliquam terram, which, in Nep., Hann., 4, 2, is = bellum in aliquam terram transferre or transmittere): arma capere or ferre contra aliquem (to take up or bear arms against): bello aliquem tentare or lacessere (to attack). To take part in a war, partem belli capessere: a war breaks out, bellum oritur or cooritur; violently, exardescit: war rages in a country, terra bellum ardet or flagrat: to carry on war, bellare: bellum gerere (of a prince or a people; also of a general: ☞ bellum ducere, in this sense is not Latin): belligerare (stronger than bellum gerere, and more rare in prose): bellum habere (to be in a state of war, to be at war). To conduct a war, bellum agere (to manage a war, to sketch out the plan of it, and arrange everything necessary for conducting it, Vid :, Caes., B.G., 3, 8; Nep., Hann., 8, 3, where bellum gerere could not stand): bellum administrare (☞ never gubernare; to have the superintendence and administration of a war; of a commander-in-chief). To carry on war with anyone, bellare, belligerare cum aliquo, contra or adversus aliquem; bellum gerere cum aliquo, contra or adversus, or (rarely) in aliquem (general terms): bellum habere susceptum cum aliquo (to have entered upon a war with): castra habere contra aliquem (to have taken the field against): bello or armis persequi aliquem (to pursue with war). To protract a war, bellum ducere or trahere: to conclude or finish a war, belli or bellandi, or (more rarely) bello or bellando, finem facere (general term): ab armis discedere (by a voluntary laying down of arms): bellum conficere or perficere; debellare (by force of arms, by entire defeat of the enemy): bellum componere (by treaty); perfectly, nullam partem belli relinquere: totius belli confectorem esse: bellum tollere, delere. (☞ Avoid bellum patrare, Quint., 8, 3, 4.) To bring a war near to an end (especially by a great or masterly stroke), bellum profligare (☞ this is the correct meaning of this expression; Vid: Cic., ad Div., 12, 30, 2; bellum profligatum ac paene sublatum est, Flor., 2, 15, 2; of the three Punic wars considered as one great one, primo tempore commissum est bellum, profligatum secundo, tertio vero confectum, ☞ Suet., Oth., 9). The war was terminated by a single battle, uno proelio debellatum est: art of war res militaris; militia (that to what soldiers are trained): disciplina bellica or militaris (as opposed to other arts; Vid: Cic., N.D., 2, 64, 161): artes belli (arts of war, as practised by generals, etc: a single art, ars belli): Man of war, if = warrior, Vid :; if= ship of war, navis bellica (general term †) navis longa; navis rostrata; quinqueremis [Vid: SHIP]: to learn war or the art of war, rem militarem or militiam discere: militare discere; under anyone, sub aliquo: war-footing, belli ratio: to put the army on a war-footing, exercitum or copias omnibus rebus ornare atque instruere: exercitum instruere (cf., Herzog, Caes., B.G., 7, 18): to put the navy on a war-footing, classem expedire atque instruere (Vid: Hirt., B. Alex., 25): the army is on a war-footing, exercitus omnibus rebus ornatus atque instructus est.