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exsanguis
exsanguis
Latin
Alternative forms
- esanguis
- exanguis
Adjective
exsanguis m, f (neuter exsangue); third declension
- Deprived of blood, without or lacking in blood; bloodless.
- Pale, wan.
- (figuratively) Powerless, feeble, weak, exhausted.
Inflection
Third declension.
| Number | Singular | Plural | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Case / Gender | Masc./Fem. | Neuter | Masc./Fem. | Neuter | |
| nominative | exsanguis | exsangue | exsanguēs | exsanguia | |
| genitive | exsanguis | exsanguium | |||
| dative | exsanguī | exsanguibus | |||
| accusative | exsanguem | exsangue | exsanguēs | exsanguia | |
| ablative | exsanguī | exsanguibus | |||
| vocative | exsanguis | exsangue | exsanguēs | exsanguia | |
Derived terms
- exsanguescō
- exsanguinātus
Descendants
- English: exsanguine
- French: exsangue
- Italian: esangue
References
- exsanguis in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- exsanguis in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- Félix Gaffiot (1934), “exsanguis”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.
- Meissner, Carl; Auden, Henry William (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
- the dry, lifeless style: oratio exilis, ieiuna, arida, exsanguis
- the dry, lifeless style: oratio exilis, ieiuna, arida, exsanguis