Sanguinolent
/ˈsaŋɡwɪnələnt/noun
Bleeding or tinged with blood.
Did you know?Its root is the same ancient blood-word behind words like sanguine and sanguinary, all tracing back to Latin sanguis, the ordinary word for blood.
Etymological Timeline
Proto-Indo-European
PIE
*sengʷʰ-
“to bleed; blood”
Latin
Latin
sanguis
“blood”
Late Latin
Latin
sanguinolentus
“bloody; bloodstained”
Middle French
French
sanguinolent
“bloody; bleeding”
Modern English
English
sanguinolent
“bleeding or tinged with blood”
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