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The nominative of the original paradigm is likely to be reflected as Old Latinassyr, as(c)er (found in glosses only). It's disputed whether sanguen is the earlier form, but it seems more likely that it's a later reshaping on the analogy of unguen, inguen, since if original, the addition of -s- to it would be reflected as *sanguēs.
It has also supposed that may be related to Etruscan𐌔𐌀𐌍𐌗𐌖𐌍𐌄𐌕𐌀(sanxuneta, “the sanguinary”), with the enclitic article -𐌕𐌀(-ta) (assuming, contrary to the usual view, that sanguis is not of Indo-European origin).
‘Iuppiter,’ inquit, ‘habet Rōmāna potentia vīrēs: sanguinis officiō nōn eget illa meī.
‘‘Oh, Jupiter,’’ he said, ‘‘The Roman power has strength : It has no need with the service of my blood .’’ (Jupiter hears the plea of Mars to deify his son Romulus (mythology).)
^ De Vaan, Michiel (2008) “sanguīs”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 537
“sanguis”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
“sanguis”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
sanguis 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)
sanguis in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
to drip blood; to be deluged with blood: sanguine manare, redundare
to shed one's blood for one's fatherland: sanguinem suum pro patria effundere or profundere
the victory cost much blood and many wounds, was very dearly bought: victoria multo sanguine ac vulneribus stetit (Liv. 23. 30)