The corpus record — Latin

sanies

ulcer, wound matter

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Where it lives

De Medicina 27 · 2.63/10k
Contra Symmachum 3 · 2.5/10k
Octavia 1 · 1.91/10k
Pharsalia 9 · 1.77/10k
Medea 1 · 1.77/10k
Oedipus 1 · 1.69/10k
Psychomachia 1 · 1.67/10k
de raptu Proserpinae 1 · 1.43/10k
Apotheosis 1 · 1.35/10k
Punica 10 · 1.31/10k
Thebais 7 · 1.12/10k
Suasoriae 1 · 0.97/10k

Densest 12 of 32 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

1. sanies — de Vaan

sanies 'ulcer, wound matter' [f. e] (Enn.+) Sanies might be a derivative in -ies to the stem *san- of the word for 'blood' sanguis^ but the formation type rather points to a deverbal abstract. Klingenschmitt (1992: 128) reconstructs *hIsh2en-ih2- 'blood-like matter'. BibL: WH II: 475, EM 593. — sanguis — [de Vaan, s.v. sanies, p. 552]

2. sănĭes — Lewis & Short

sănĭes, em, e, f.a weakened form of sanguis.

I Diseased or corrupted blood, bloody matter, sanies (cf.: pus, tabes): ex his (vulneribus ulceribusque) exit sanguis, sanies, pus. Sanguis omnibus notus est: sanies est tenuior hoc, varie crassa et glutinosa et colorata: pus crassissimum albidissimumque, glutinosius et sanguine et sanie, etc., Cels. 5, 26, 20: saxa spargens tabo, sanie et sanguine atro, Enn. ap. Cic. Tusc. 1, 44, 107, and id. ap. Cic. Pis. 19 (Trag. v. 414 Vahl.); Cato, R. R. 157, 3; Pac. ap. Cic. Tusc. 1, 44, 106 (Trag. Rel. p. 84 Rib.); (with tabo), Verg. A. 8, 487; 3, 618; 3, 625; 3, 632; id. G. 3, 493: saniem conjecto emittite ferro, Ov. M. 7, 338; Tac. A. 4, 49 al.—

II Transf., of similar fluids (poet. and in post-Aug. prose): (Laocoon) Perfusus sanie vittas atroque veneno, venomous slaver of the serpent, Verg. A. 2, 221; cf.: nullā sanie polluta veneni, Luc. 6, 457; so, colubrae saniem vomunt, Ov. M. 4, 493: serpentis, Sil. 6, 276; 6, 678; 12, 10.—Of Cerberus, Hor. C. 3, 11, 19.—Of matter flowing from the ear, Plin. 27, 7, 28, § 50.—Of the humor of spiders, Plin. 29, 6, 39, § 138.—Of the liquor of the purple-fish, Plin. 9, 38, 62, § 134; 35, 6, 26, § 44.—Of the watery part of olives, Plin. 15, 3, 3, § 9; cf. amurcae, Col. 1, 6 fin.—Of pickle, brine, Manil. 5, 671: auri, i. e. chrysocolla, mountain-green, Plin. 33, prooem. 2. § 4.

In the wild

sanie Vergil, Aeneid 2.221
saniem Seneca, Ad Lucilium Epistulae Morales 15.95.25
sanie Columella, Res Rustica, Books I-IX 6.11.1
sanies Columella, Res Rustica, Books I-IX 1.6.24
sanie Claudian, de raptu Proserpinae 2.1.212
sanie Ammianus Marcellinus, Res Gestae 19.9.9

6 of 119 attestations shown.

Where it came from

de Vaan, Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Brill 2008) Treated in de Vaan, Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Brill 2008) s.v. sanies (scan p. 552; entry #1540). Root candidates: *san-.
Ernout-Meillet, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue latine Treated in Ernout-Meillet, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue latine s.v. saniés (scan p. 617; entry #10141).

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