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Latin
Etymology
From ex- (“out of, from”) + sanguis (“blood”) + -is (adjective-forming suffix).
Pronunciation
Adjective
exsanguis (neuter exsangue); third-declension two-termination adjective
- Deprived of blood, without or lacking in blood; bloodless.
- Pale, wan.
- (figuratively) Powerless, feeble, weak, exhausted.
Declension
Third-declension two-termination adjective.
Derived terms
Descendants
References
- “exsanguis”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “exsanguis”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- exsanguis in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
- the dry, lifeless style: oratio exilis, ieiuna, arida, exsanguis