Sanguineous
/sæŋˈɡwɪniəs/noun
Containing or relating to blood; bloody.
Did you know?Sanguineous comes from Latin sanguis, meaning “blood,” a root that also fed ancient ideas about bodily humors and the life-force coursing through the body.
Etymological Timeline
Proto-Indo-European
PIE
*h₁eḱ- / *sangʷ-
“A reconstructed ancestral root associated with blood in the Latin branch”
Latin
Latin
sanguis
“blood”
Late Latin
Latin
sanguineus
“bloody; blood-colored; of blood”
Middle English
English
sanguinous
“bloody; blood-like”
Modern English
English
sanguineous
“containing or relating to blood”
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