Lemma 1sāngụĭs

nounmasculine

blood; family

Morphology2 analyses

nominative singularsanguis · regular

vocative singularsanguis · regular

Lewis & Short

key · sanguisFull entry

sanguis, ĭnis, m., acc. [etym. dub.; prob. root sak-, sag-, to drop, flow; cf. Angl.-Sax. sūc-an; Germ. saugen]

I.Neutr. collat. form sanguen, ante-class., Enn. ap.; id.ap.; id. ap. P.; Cato ap.; Att. and Varr. ap. Non. l. l., blood (class. only in the; cruor).

II.Lit.: quod sanguen defluxerat, Cato ap.: pugnatum ingenti caede utrimque, plurimo sanguine: haurire sanguinem, to shed (another's) blood: sanguinem dare, to shed (one's own) blood, give (one's) life.

2.Plur. (late Lat.), 8.

B.Transf. (class.; esp. freq. in the poets).

1.Blood, i. e. consanguinity, descent, race, stock, family.

a.Abstr.

b.Concr., a descendant, offspring: o pater, o genitor, o sanguen dis oriundum! Enn. ap.; clarus Anchisae Venerisque sanguis (i. e. Æneas): regius sanguis (i. e. Europa): vos, o Pompilius sanguis (i. e. the Pisos).

2.Of other fluids (rare)

III.Trop., vigor, strength, force, spirit, life (class.): (4, 16, 10); quae cum de sanguine detraxisset aerarii, had bled the treasury (the figure taken from blood-letting); cum provinciam curarit, sanguinem miserit, etc. — Of vigor, force of style: orationis subtilitas etsi non plurimi sanguinis est, etc.; (with vires).