English

Bellona astronomical symbol

Proper noun

Bellona

1. (Roman mythology) Roman goddess of war, wife or sister of Mars. Equivalent to the Greek goddess Enyo.
   • Thomas Campbell

     But time will teach the Russ, ev'n conquering War
     Has handmaid arts: aye, aye, the Russ will woo
     All sciences that speed Bellona's car,
     All murder's tactic arts, and win them too […]

2. (astronomy) Short for 28 Bellona, a main belt asteroid.

See also

• (mythology): Bellona on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• (astronomy): 28 Bellona on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Translations

Latin

Etymology

From older Duellōna by a regular sound change. Cognate with Ancient Greek δύη ‎(dúē, “misery, pain”) and with bellum ‎(“war”)

Proper noun

Bellōna f ‎(genitive Bellōnae); first declension

1. Goddess of war, sister (or sometimes wife) of Mars

Inflection

First declension.

Synonyms

• (goddess of war): Enȳō (Greek equivalent)

References

• Bellōna in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• Bellona in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• Félix Gaffiot (1934), “Bellona”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.
• Bellona in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• Bellona in William Smith, editor (1848) A Dictionary of Greek Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray

Italian

Noun

bellona f ‎(plural bellone, masculine bellone)

1. stunner (stunning person)