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Latin
Etymology
From sanguis (“blood”) + -eus.
Pronunciation
Adjective
sanguineus (feminine sanguinea, neuter sanguineum); first/second-declension adjective
- of blood, bloody, blood-stained, bloodshot
- bloodthirsty
- blood-coloured, blood-red
29 BCE – 19 BCE,
Virgil,
Aeneid 2.206–207:
- “ pectora quōrum inter flūctūs arrēcta iubaeque
sanguineae superant undās .”- “ their chests erect among the waves, and their blood-red crests rising over the waters .” – Aeneas
Declension
First/second-declension adjective.
Descendants
References
- “sanguineus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “sanguineus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- sanguineus in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
- sanguineus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.