sangre azul

Spanish

Noun

sangre azul f (uncountable)

1. blue blood (noble or aristocratic ancestry)

Descendants

• → English: blue blood (calque)
• → French: sang bleu (calque)
• → German: blaues Blut (calque)

Further reading

• “sangre azul”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025