sanies

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin sanies.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈseɪniːz/

Noun

sanies (countable and uncountable, plural sanies)

1. (medicine) a thin mixture of pus and blood serum discharged from a wound; ichor

Anagrams

• Inessa, Saines, anesis, anises, asines, sansei

Latin

Alternative forms

• sania (Late Latin)

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *h₁sh₂-én-, oblique stem of *h₁ésh₂r̥ (“blood”). Compare Latin sanguis.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈsa.ni.eːs/, [ˈs̠änieːs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈsa.ni.es/, [ˈsäːnies]

Noun

saniēs f (genitive saniēī); fifth declension

1. ichor, pus, sanies

Declension

Fifth-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	saniēs	saniēs
Genitive	saniēī	saniērum
Dative	saniēī	saniēbus
Accusative	saniem	saniēs
Ablative	saniē	saniēbus
Vocative	saniēs	saniēs

Descendants

• Italian: sanie
• Sardinian: sanza, sangia
• Picard Old French: sainnie
  • Middle French: saingne, rancle de saingnie (“purulent ulcer”)
• ⇒ Old Catalan: saniar
• →? Old Occitan: sania
• Portuguese: sanha
• Spanish: saña
• → English: sanies
• → Catalan: sànies
• → Portuguese: sânie
• → Spanish: sanies

References

• Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002) “saniēs”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch, volumes 11: S–Si, page 184

Further reading

• “sanies”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “sanies”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• sanies in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.