The corpus record — Latin

sanguineus

sanguineus · adj

of blood

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Where it lives

Epitaphia heroum qui bello Troico interfuerunt 1 · 8.33/10k
Ephemeris id est totius diei negotium 1 · 7.71/10k
Culex, Appendix Vergiliana 2 · 7.65/10k
Cento Nuptialis 1 · 7.33/10k
Technopaegnion 1 · 6.73/10k
de raptu Proserpinae 4 · 5.74/10k
Eclogarum Liber 1 · 3.65/10k
Medea 2 · 3.53/10k
In Rufinum 2 · 3.49/10k
Oedipus 2 · 3.37/10k
Thebais 20 · 3.2/10k
de bello Gildonico 1 · 3.16/10k

Densest 12 of 53 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

sanguĭnĕus — Lewis & Short

sanguĭnĕus, a, um, adj.sanguis.

I Lit., of blood, consisting of blood, bloody, blood- (class.; a favorite word of the Aug. poets): imber, * Cic. Div. 2, 28, 60: guttae, Ov. M. 2, 360; 14, 408: dapes, Tib. 1, 5, 49: manus, Ov. M. 1, 143: lingua, id. ib. 3, 57: humus, id. H. 16, 334; cf. mater, id. M. 3, 125: hasta, Stat. Th. 8, 436: pulmo, Sen. Agam. 760; Plin. 11, 37, 72, § 188: caedes, Ov. M. 13, 85: rixae, Hor. C. 1, 27, 4: bellum, Val. Fl. 5, 308; 6, 134: crines, Stat. Th. 10, 173: leo, Val. Fl. 3, 588.—

B Blood-thirsty: vir, i. e. Hannibal, Sil. 1, 40: Mavors, Verg. A. 12, 332: Mars, Ov. R. Am. 153.—

II Transf., blood-colored, blood-red (poet. and in postAug. prose): jubae (anguium), Verg. A. 2, 207: cometae, id. ib. 10, 273: mora, id. E. 6, 22: Luna, Ov. Am. 2, 1, 23: sagulum, Sil. 4, 519: color vini, Plin. 14, 9, 11, § 80: sucus, id. 21, 16, 56, § 95: frutices, id. 16, 18, 30, § 74: virgae, Dig. 49, 9, 9: cristae, Col. 8, 2, 9: flores, id. 10, 242.

In the wild

sanguineis Lucan, Pharsalia 4.758
sanguineum Aulus Gellius, Noctes Atticae 2.26.5
sanguineus Silius Italicus, Punica 14.556
sanguineos Prudentius, Apotheosis 3.766
sanguineum Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 16.26.p1
sanguineis Vergil, Eclogues 6

6 of 167 attestations shown.

Where it came from

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