sanguinolent
English
Etymology
From Middle English sanguinolent, from Old French sanguinolent, from Latin sanguinolentus (“of blood”).
Pronunciation
Adjective
sanguinolent (comparative more sanguinolent, superlative most sanguinolent)
- Containing or tinged with blood.
- 1829, M. Portal, "Pleuritis Hæmorraghica — Operation for Empyema — Death — Dissection", The Medico-Chirurgical Review, July 1829:
- 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 (1862), 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, Dentistry and Oral Diseases (eds. Tatjana Dostálová & Michaela Seydlová), Grade Publishing (2010), →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.
- 1829, M. Portal, "Pleuritis Hæmorraghica — Operation for Empyema — Death — Dissection", The Medico-Chirurgical Review, July 1829:
Synonyms
Translations
containing or tinged with blood
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French
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin sanguinolentus. See also sanglant.
Pronunciation
Adjective
sanguinolent (feminine sanguinolente, masculine plural sanguinolents, feminine plural sanguinolentes)
- 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
Adjective
sanguinolent (rare)
- Emitting blood or having blood flow out; currently bleeding.
- Forestalling or countering bloodflow or blood spurting.
- 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.
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