bellarmine

Other forms of bellarmine

plural

bellarmines·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about bellarmine

What does bellarmine mean?

bellarmine means "Italian cardinal and theologian (1542-1621)". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in bellarmine?

bellarmine has 3 syllables and divides as bel-lar-mine under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

What is another word for bellarmine?

Close synonyms include Bellarmino, Cardinal Bellarmine, Roberto Francesco Romolo Bellarmine, longbeard, long-beard. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is bellarmine a common word?

bellarmine is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.