Continuing a common pattern in the Indo-European language family, the Romans had two words for “blood”- sanguis and cruor-and while sanguis implicitly referred to blood inside the body, cruor referred to blood outside the body, particularly in violent contexts. ![]() Sanguivorous “feeding on blood” is a compound of the combining forms sangui- “blood” and -vorous “devouring.” Sangui- derives from Latin sanguis, of the same meaning, but the story does not stop there.
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