sanguineus

From sanguis (“blood”) +‎ -eus.

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /sanˈɡʷi.ne.us/, [s̠äŋˈɡʷɪneʊs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /sanˈɡwi.ne.us/, [säŋˈɡwiːneus]

sanguineus (feminine sanguinea, neuter sanguineum); first/second-declension adjective

1. of blood, bloody, blood-stained, bloodshot
2. bloodthirsty
3. blood-coloured, blood-red
   • 29 BCE – 19 BCE, Virgil, Aeneid 2.206–207:

     “[...] pectora quōrum inter flūctūs arrēcta iubaeque
     sanguineae superant undās [...].”

     “[Sea serpents, with] their chests erect among the waves, and their blood-red crests rising over the waters [...].” – Aeneas

First/second-declension adjective.

• sanguis

• “sanguineus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “sanguineus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• sanguineus in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• sanguineus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.