sanguinolento
Italian edit
Etymology edit
From Latin sanguinolentus (“of blood”), from sanguis (“blood”) + -olentus (“full of, abounding in”).
Pronunciation edit
Adjective edit
sanguinolento (feminine sanguinolenta, masculine plural sanguinolenti, feminine plural sanguinolente)
- bloody, gory
- c. 1477, Lorenzo de' Medici, La reietta [The outcast][1]; republished in “Rime varie o di dubbia autenticitá”, in Lorenzo de' Medici il Magnifico - Opere[2], Bari: Gius. Laterza & figli, 1913, page 266:
- Ma non sará sí presto il tuo cammino,
ché ’l spirto mio verrá seguendo l’orma
visibilmente sempre a te vicino:
sanguinolenta in quella propria forma
che con la cruda man morte mi diei- But your path will not be so quick, for my spirit will follow the track, always visibly close to you: bloody, in the very form Death gave me through Its harsh hand
- bleeding
- rare, underdone (of meat)
- Synonym: al sangue
- (uncommon) blood red
- (figurative) bloody (characterized by bloodshed)
- (archaic) bloodthirsty, bloodlusty
Related terms edit
References edit
- sanguinolento in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
Latin edit
Adjective edit
sanguinolentō
Portuguese edit
Etymology edit
From Latin sanguinolentus (“of blood”), from sanguis (“blood”) + -olentus (“full of, abounding in”).
Pronunciation edit
- Hyphenation: san‧gui‧no‧len‧to
Adjective edit
sanguinolento (feminine sanguinolenta, masculine plural sanguinolentos, feminine plural sanguinolentas)
- bloodthirsty (characterised by massive bloodshed)
- sanguinolent (tinged with blood)
Spanish edit
Etymology edit
From Latin sanguinolentus (“of blood”), from sanguis (“blood”) + -olentus (“full of, abounding in”).
Pronunciation edit
Adjective edit
sanguinolento (feminine sanguinolenta, masculine plural sanguinolentos, feminine plural sanguinolentas)
Further reading edit
- “sanguinolento”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014