English-French translations for casus belli

• casus belli
  Elle menace la Grèce d'un casus belli et exprime des revendications territoriales. It is threatening Greece with casus belli and putting forward territorial claims.
  Mais danger surtout d'un casus belli en préparation, le jour où la France, touchée par la sécheresse à son tour, couperait le robinet d'alimentation. But there is also the danger of a casus belli in waiting, the day when France too is touched by drought and turns off the tap to Spain.

Definition of casus belli

• An act seen as justifying or causing a war; act of war

Related words

• Caucasus
• Transcaucasus
• Caucasus Mountains
• South Caucasus
• North Caucasus
• Greater Caucasus
• Lesser Caucasus