sanguinolent

English

WOTD – 29 November 2012

Etymology

From Middle English sanguinolent, from Old French sanguinolent, from Latin sanguinolentus (“of blood”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sæŋˈɡwɪnələnt/

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• Hyphenation: san‧guin‧o‧lent

Adjective

sanguinolent (comparative more sanguinolent, superlative most sanguinolent)

1. Containing or tinged with blood.
   • 1829 July, M. Portal, “Pleuritis Hæmorraghica — Operation for Empyema — Death — Dissection”, in The Medico-Chirurgical Review:

     On making a larger opening there issued three or four pints of a very sanguinolent fluid.

   • 1862, George Heinrich Gottlieb Jahr, Hull's Jahr: A New Manual of Homœopathic Practice, William Radde, page 537:

     When the desire to urinate manifests itself chiefly at night, with burning pains when urinating, or emission, drop by drop, of sanguinolent urine.

   • 1892, Henry James, Nona Vincent:

     He still walked about London with his dreams, but as months succeeded months and he left the year behind him they were dreams not so much of success as of revenge. Success seemed a colourless name for the reward of his patience; something fiercely florid, something sanguinolent was more to the point.

   • 2010, Tatjana Dostálová, Michaela Seydlová, editors, Dentistry and Oral Diseases, Grade Publishing, →ISBN, page 163:

     They are caused by an accumulation of blood or sanguinolent liquid inside the dental follicles, they may occur in the deciduous as well as permanent dentition.

Synonyms

• bloody

Translations

containing or tinged with blood

• Finnish: verensekainen
• German: blutbefleckt (de), bluttriefend (de), blutig (de), blutbesudelt (de), blutbeschmiert (de)
• Spanish: sangriento (es), sanguinolento (es)

Catalan

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central) [səŋ.ɡi.nuˈlen]
• IPA^(key): (Balearic) [səŋ.ɡi.noˈlent]
• IPA^(key): (Valencian) [saŋ.ɡi.noˈlent]

Adjective

sanguinolent (feminine sanguinolenta, masculine plural sanguinolents, feminine plural sanguinolentes)

1. sanguinolent

Further reading

• “sanguinolent” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin sanguinolentus. See also sanglant.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sɑ̃.ɡi.nɔ.lɑ̃/

Adjective

sanguinolent (feminine sanguinolente, masculine plural sanguinolents, feminine plural sanguinolentes)

1. sanguinolent (covered or tinged with blood)

Further reading

• “sanguinolent”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Middle English

Etymology

From Old French sanguinolent, borrowed itself from Latin sanguinolentus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sanɡwiˈnɔːlɛnt/, /sanˈɡwinɔlɛnt/

Adjective

sanguinolent (rare)

1. Emitting blood or having blood flow out; currently bleeding.
2. Forestalling or countering bloodflow or blood spurting.
3. Blood-coloured; having the same colour of blood.

Descendants

• English: sanguinolent

References

• “sanguinolent, adj.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-12-11.

Romanian

Adjective

sanguinolent m or n (feminine singular sanguinolentă, masculine plural sanguinolenți, feminine and neuter plural sanguinolente)

1. Alternative form of sangvinolent

Declension

Declension of sanguinolent

		singular			plural
		masculine	neuter	feminine	masculine	neuter	feminine
nominative/ accusative	indefinite	sanguinolent		sanguinolentă	sanguinolenți	sanguinolente
	definite	sanguinolentul		sanguinolenta	sanguinolenții	sanguinolentele
genitive/ dative	indefinite	sanguinolent		sanguinolente	sanguinolenți	sanguinolente
	definite	sanguinolentului		sanguinolentei	sanguinolenților	sanguinolentelor