cruentaverat
Dictionary entries
- Entry →cruento, cruentare, cruentavi, cruentatus:
Verb · 1st conjugation · Transitive
- Frequency:
- Common
- Dictionary:
- Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
stain/spot/mark with blood; cause to bleed, wound; pollute with blood-guilt;; make/dye blood-red; soak/besplatter with any liquid; tinge with red (L+S);
sg. pluperf. act. ind. 3rd
Examples
BELLUM IUGURTHINUM
Gaius Sallustius Crispus (Sallust)
"...quem in pugna satis impigre occiso pedite nostro cruentaverat. Quod ubi milites accepere, magis atrocitate rei quam fide..."Liber I
Publius Cornelius Tacitus from HISTORIAE
"...piaculum obicitur centurio Crispinus. sanguine Capitonis [se] cruentaverat eoque et postulantibus manifestior et punienti vilior fuit. Iulius deinde..."