sanguinolentus Latin · revision 33688

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=116–27 BC, Varro|origins=itc-pro *sangwen-}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * Classical: [saŋ.ɡʷɪ.nɔˈɫɛn.tʊs]^(Wiktionary)

+ * Ecclesiastical: [saŋ.ɡʷi.noˈlɛn.tus]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''sanguinolentus''' (feminine sanguinolenta, neuter sanguinolentum); first/second-declension adjective^(Wiktionary)

+ It is also spelled ''sanguinulentus'',^(OLD 2012) and Scribonius has a shorter ''sanguilentus''.^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[af|la|sanguis|-olentus|t1=blood|t2=full of]].^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary) De Vaan traces [[m|la|sanguis]] to [[itc-pro|*sangwen-]]; its first part may continue the oblique stem of the word for “blood”, [[ine-pro|*h₁sh₂-én-|t=blood]], while the second part is less certain.^(de Vaan 2008) Cognate with [[hit|ešhar|t=blood]], [[sa|असृज्|tr=ásṛj-|t=blood]] and [[grc|ἔαρ|tr=éar|t=blood]].^(de Vaan 2008)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ De Vaan dates it from Varro,^(de Vaan 2008) who speaks of bloody seditions.^(OLD 2012) Köbler dates it from Claudius Quadrigarius, who, as quoted by Gellius, has a man cut off a head, pull off the torque and put it, bloodstained, round his own neck.^(Köbler 2010)^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It means covered with blood, bloodstained, and in medical writers ''fluor sanguinolentus'' is a discharge of blood.^(OLD 2012) Lewis & Short note that it is mostly poetic and not in Cicero;^(Lewis & Short 1879) Tibullus and Ovid use it.^(Lewis & Short 1879) It also means greedy for blood or cruel: Ovid says that no bloodthirsty line of Naso's exists.^(OLD 2012) Ovid uses it too of a colour, blood-red.^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * 1st century BC – Claudius Quadrigarius, of a bloodstained torque.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 116–27 BC – Varro, of bloody seditions.^(OLD 2012)^(de Vaan 2008)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 43 BC–18 AD – Ovid, of cruelty and of a blood-red colour.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Adjective===

+ # Covered with [[m|en|blood]], bloodstained, [[m|en|bloody]];^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary) accompanied by [[m|en|bloodshed]].^(OLD 2012)

+ # Greedy for blood, cruel.^(OLD 2012)

+ # Blood-red, [[m|en|crimson]].^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Word family==

+ * [[sanguinolentia]]

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[sanguis]]

+ * [[sanguineus]]

+ * [[cruentus]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}