sanguĭnŏlentus (collat. form san-guĭlentus, Scrib. Comp. 182), a, um, adj. [sanguis]
- I. Lit., full of blood, bloody (class., but, like sanguineus, mostly poet.; not in Cic.): torques, Quadrig. ap. Gell. 9, 13, 18; so, soror, Tib. 2, 6, 40: pectora, Ov. H. 3, 50: ille, id. F. 4, 844: Erinys, id. H. 6, 46: (Curetes) inter se armis Ludunt in numerumque exsultant sanguinolenti, Lucr. 2, 631; v. Lachm. ad h. l.: Allia … vulneribus Latiis, Ov. A. A. 1, 414: seditiones, Varr. ap. Non. 465, 33.
- B. Transf., bloodred: color, Ov. Am. 1, 12, 12.
- II. Trop., full of blood, bloody, sanguinary: palma, Auct. Her. 4, 39, 51: centesimae, qs. bloodsucking, Sen. Ben. 7, 10, 3: littera, i. e. offensive, injurious, Ov. Ib. 4.