exsanguis Latin · revision 31766

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=230/220–168 BC, Caecilius|origins=la sanguis}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * Classical: [ɛksˈsaŋ.ɡʷɪs]^(Wiktionary)

+ * Ecclesiastical: [eksˈsaŋ.ɡʷis]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''exsanguis''' (neuter exsangue); third-declension two-termination adjective^(Wiktionary)

+ It is also spelled ''exanguis''.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is formed from [[ex-]] and [[sanguis|t=blood]].^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)^(Köbler 2010) De Vaan explains the first part of ⟨sanguis⟩ from the oblique stem of [[ine-pro|*h₁ésh₂r̥|t=blood]], cognate with [[hit|ešḫar|t=blood]] and [[sa|असृज्|tr=ásṛj-|t=blood]]; the second part is less certain.^(de Vaan 2008)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ Köbler's first source is Caecilius,^(Köbler 2010) who has someone flying along pale and panting.^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It means “bloodless, drained of blood”, as Lucretius' boneless and bloodless creatures and Cicero's man cut by many wounds, at his last breath and bloodless.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) Often it is “pale”, from fear or anger, as in Caecilius.^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary) Figuratively it is “drained of strength, exhausted”, as Cicero's man exhausted by every vice, and of style “lifeless”, in the ''Rhetorica ad Herennium''.^(OLD 2012)

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+ Church Latin glosses it “bloodless”.^(Stelten 1995)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * 230/220–168 BC – Caecilius of someone pale and panting.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 96–55 BC – Lucretius of bloodless creatures.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 81–43 BC – Cicero of a bloodless, dying man.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Adjective===

+ # [[m|en|bloodless|alt=Bloodless]], drained of blood.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)^(Stelten 1995)

+ # [[m|en|pale|alt=Pale]], wan.^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)

+ # Exhausted, feeble; of style, lifeless.^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Word family==

+ * [[exsanguescō]]

+ * [[exsanguinātus]]

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[sanguis]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}