cruento
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. pres. act. ind. 1st - Entry →cruentus, cruenta -um, cruentior -or -us, cruentissimus -a -um:
Adjective · 1st declension
- Frequency:
- Frequent
- Dictionary:
- Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
bloody/bleeding/discharging blood; gory; blood red; polluted w/blood-guilt;; bloodthirsty, insatiably cruel, savage; accompanied by/involving bloodshed;
abl. sg. (m.)abl. sg. (n.)dat. sg. (m.)dat. sg. (n.)
Examples
- A
Liber V
Aulus Gellius
"...eandem specum venit hic leo debili uno et cruento pede gemitus edens et murmura dolorem cruciatumque vulneris commiserantia..." - L
Liber X
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from EPISTULAE MORALES AD LUCILIUM
"...ingens ianitor Orci ossa super recubans antro semesa cruento aeternum latrans exsangues terreat umbras. Etiam cum persuaseris istas..." - L
Liber III
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from DE IRA
"...omni calore ac spiritu uerso subrubicundum et similem cruento, uenis tumentibus, oculis nunc trepidis et exilientibus, nunc..." - L
Liber III
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from DE BENEFICIIS
"...iniqua est; par et capitalis? quid inhumanius quam cruentos esse beneficiorum exitus? 'Quaedam' inquit 'priuilegia parentibus data sunt..." - L
Oedipus
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from FABULAE
"...manus. nec Sphinga caecis uerba nectentem modis fugi: cruentos uatis infandae tuli rictus et albens ossibus sparsis solum..." - L
Agamemnon
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from FABULAE
"...sublimis iacet ignobili sub dente Marmaricus leo, morsus cruentos passus audacis leae. Quid me uocatis sospitem solam..." - L
Hercules [Oetaeus]
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from FABULAE
"...dura series operis et longus tibi pauit cruentos forsitan morbos labor. He. Vbi morbus, ubinam est? estne adhuc..." - M
Liber II
Marcus Annaeus Lucanus (Lucan) from DE BELLO CIVILI SIVE PHARSALIA
"...praecipiti iaculatus pondere dura 155dissiluit percussus humo, mortesque cruento uictori rapuere suas; hic robora busti exstruit ipse..."
