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cruentus

cruentus

Latin

Adjective

cruentus m ‎(feminine cruenta, neuter cruentum); first/second declension

bloody in its various senses, particularly:
1. blood-stained
2. (figuratively) blood-soaked, blood-thirsty, cruel
3. blood-red, crimson

Inflection

First/second declension.

Case / Gender	Masculine	Feminine	Neuter		Masculine	Feminine	Neuter
Number	Singular				Plural
nominative	cruentus	cruenta	cruentum		cruentī	cruentae	cruenta
genitive	cruentī	cruentae	cruentī		cruentōrum	cruentārum	cruentōrum
dative	cruentō	cruentae	cruentō		cruentīs
accusative	cruentum	cruentam	cruentum		cruentōs	cruentās	cruenta
ablative	cruentō	cruentā	cruentō		cruentīs
vocative	cruente	cruenta	cruentum		cruentī	cruentae	cruenta

Related terms

cruentātiō
cruentē
cruenter

Descendants

Italian: cruento
Portuguese: cruento
Romanian: crunt
Spanish: cruento

References

cruentus in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
cruentus in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
Félix Gaffiot (1934), “cruentus”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.
Meissner, Carl; Auden, Henry William (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
- a bloody battle: proelium cruentum, atrox