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Italian
Etymology
From Latin cruentus.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /kruˈɛn.to/
- Rhymes: -ɛnto
- Hyphenation: cru‧èn‧to
Adjective
cruento (feminine cruenta, masculine plural cruenti, feminine plural cruente, superlative cruentissimo)
- bloody, gory
Derived terms
Further reading
- cruento in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
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Latin
Pronunciation
Etymology 1
From cruentus (“bloody”) + -ō.
Verb
cruentō (present infinitive cruentāre, perfect active cruentāvī, supine cruentātum); first conjugation
- to make bloody; to stain with blood
- (figuratively) to stain, pollute
- (figuratively) to dye red
Conjugation
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Descendants
Etymology 2
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Adjective
cruentō
- dative/ablative masculine/neuter singular of cruentus
References
- “cruento”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “cruento”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- cruento in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
Spanish
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin cruentus (“bloody”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈkɾwento/
- Rhymes: -ento
- Syllabification: cruen‧to
Adjective
cruento (feminine cruenta, masculine plural cruentos, feminine plural cruentas)
- bloody
- Synonyms: sangriento, sanguinolento
- Antonym: incruento
2020 November 29, Ana Carbajosa, “Los ultras alemanes de AfD se desgarran en luchas internas durante un congreso con medio millar de asistentes”, in El País, retrieved 2020-11-29:La división de un partido en el que conviven dos almas y que se desgarra fruto de una cruenta lucha por el poder, quedó al descubierto en Kalkar, en el oeste de Alemania.- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
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