The corpus record — Latin

sanguino

sanguino · v. n

to be bloody; to bleed

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Where it lives

Dialogus de Oratoribus 1 · 1.08/10k
Metamorphoses 1 · 0.19/10k
Adversus Marcionem 1 · 0.12/10k

What it meant

sanguĭno — Lewis & Short

sanguĭno, āre, v. n.id..

I Lit., to be bloody; to bleed, run with blood (postAug. and very rare): femina sanguinans (in menstruation), Tert. adv. Marc. 4, 20: lacertos sanguinantes porrigere, Quint. Decl. 10, 8; 10, 18.—

B Transf., to be of a blood-color: unda purpureis profundis, Sol. poët. in Anthol. Lat. II. p. 384 Burm. (234 Meyer): colubrum veneno noxio colla sanguinantem, App. M. 5, p. 160, 20 (cf.: sanguineae jubae anguium, Verg. A. 2, 207). —*

II Trop., to be blood-thirsty, sanguinary: sanguinans eloquentia (sc. delatorum), Tac. Or. 12.

In the wild

sanguinantis Tacitus, Dialogus de Oratoribus 12.2
sanguinantem Apuleius, Metamorphoses 5.17
sanguinantis Tertullian, Adversus Marcionem 4.20

Where it came from

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