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
Liber V
Aulus Gellius
"...eandem specum venit hic leo debili uno et cruento pede gemitus edens et murmura dolorem cruciatumque vulneris commiserantia..."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..."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..."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..."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..."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..."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..."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..."
