sangue

From Old Galician-Portuguese sangue, sangui (13th century, Cantigas de Santa Maria), from Latin sanguinem.

• Hyphenation: san‧gue

sangue m (plural sangues)

1. blood
   • 1390, J. L. Pensado Tomé, editor, Os Miragres de Santiago. Versión gallega del Códice latino del siglo XII atribuido al papa Calisto I, Madrid: C.S.I.C., page 112:

     Et tãto era o sangue dos mouros que y morrerõ que nadauã os caualos en el ata as çenllas.

     And so much was the blood of the Moors that died there that the horses swam in it till their girths

2. (figurative) lineage

   Synonyms: liñaxe, fruxe

   • c. 1295, R. Lorenzo, editor, La traducción gallega de la Crónica General y de la Crónica de Castilla, Ourense: I.E.O.P.F, page 674:

     por que veño de seu sangue, que soo seu bisneto

     because I come from his blood, since I'm his great-grandson

• Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “sangue”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “sangue”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “sangue”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “sangue”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “sangue”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

From Late Latin sanguem, alteration of Classical Latin sanguinem, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₁sh₂-én-, oblique stem of *h₁ésh₂r̥ (“blood”). Compare French sang, Romanian sânge.

• IPA^(key): /ˈsan.ɡwe/

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• Rhymes: -anɡwe
• Hyphenation: sàn‧gue

sangue m (plural sangui)

1. (uncountable) blood (vital liquid)
2. (figurative, uncountable) blood (temper of mind)
3. (figurative, uncountable) blood (family relation)
4. (rarely in the plural) family, bloodline

• Usually singular only.

sangue (invariable)

1. only used in rosso sangue

• sangue in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

From Old Galician-Portuguese sangue, sangui, from Latin sanguinem m, from older sanguen, from *san-, from Proto-Indo-European *h₁sh₂-én-, oblique stem of *h₁ésh₂r̥ (“blood”). Compare Galician sangue m, Spanish sangre f, Italian sangue m, French sang m.

• Rhymes: (Portugal) -ɐ̃ɡɨ, (Brazil) -ɐ̃ɡi, (Southern Brazil) -ɐ̃ɡe
• Hyphenation: san‧gue

sangue m (plural sangues)

1. blood (vital liquid flowing in human and animal bodies)
2. blood (family relationship due to birth, e.g. between siblings)

• → Itsekiri: isangí

• “sangue”, in Michaelis Dicionário Brasileiro da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), São Paulo: Editora Melhoramentos, 2015–2025
• “sangue”, in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2025

From Late Latin sanguem, alteration of Latin sanguinem. Compare Italian sangue.

sangue m (plural sangui)

1. blood

• sanguenar