sanguinolentus
Latin
Etymology
From sanguis (“blood”) + -olentus (“full of, abounding in”).
Pronunciation
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [saŋ.ɡʷɪ.nɔˈɫɛn.tʊs]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [saŋ.ɡʷi.noˈlɛn̪.t̪us]
Adjective
sanguinolentus (feminine sanguinolenta, neuter sanguinolentum); first/second-declension adjective
- full of blood, bloody, sanguinary
- bloodred
- 16 BCE, Ovid, The Loves 1.12.11–12:
- At tamquam miniō penitus medicāta rubēbās—
ille color vērē sanguinolentus erat.- But you were as red as if dyed through with cinnabar―
that colour truly was blood-red.
- But you were as red as if dyed through with cinnabar―
- At tamquam miniō penitus medicāta rubēbās—
Declension
First/second-declension adjective.
| singular | plural | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| masculine | feminine | neuter | masculine | feminine | neuter | ||
| nominative | sanguinolentus | sanguinolenta | sanguinolentum | sanguinolentī | sanguinolentae | sanguinolenta | |
| genitive | sanguinolentī | sanguinolentae | sanguinolentī | sanguinolentōrum | sanguinolentārum | sanguinolentōrum | |
| dative | sanguinolentō | sanguinolentae | sanguinolentō | sanguinolentīs | |||
| accusative | sanguinolentum | sanguinolentam | sanguinolentum | sanguinolentōs | sanguinolentās | sanguinolenta | |
| ablative | sanguinolentō | sanguinolentā | sanguinolentō | sanguinolentīs | |||
| vocative | sanguinolente | sanguinolenta | sanguinolentum | sanguinolentī | sanguinolentae | sanguinolenta | |
Descendants
- English: sanguinolent
- French: sanguinolent
- Italian: sanguinolento
- Portuguese: sanguinolento
- Spanish: sanguinolento
References
- “sanguinolentus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “sanguinolentus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- "sanguinolentus", 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)
- sanguinolentus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.