different between carnage vs sanguinary

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle French carnage , from a Norman or Picard variant Old Northern French) of Old French charnage, from char (“flesh”), or from Vulgar Latin *carnaticum (“slaughter of animals”), itself from Latin carnem, accusative of caro (“flesh”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?k??.n?d?/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?k??.n?d?/

Noun

carnage (usually uncountable, plural carnages)

1. Death and destruction.

   Synonyms: massacre, bloodbath

2. The corpses, gore, etc. that remain after a massacre.
3. (figuratively, sports) Any great loss by a team; a game in which one team wins overwhelmingly.
4. (figuratively, slang) Any chaotic situation.

Synonyms

• insurrectionism

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References

Anagrams

• cranage

French

Etymology

From Middle French carnage, itself probably from a Norman or Picard (Old Northern French) variant of Old French charnage, itself from char (see also chair (“flesh”)), or from a Medieval Latin carnaticum (“slaughter of animals”), from Latin car?, carnem. See also Old Occitan carnatge, Italian carnaggio.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ka?.na?/

Noun

carnage m (plural carnages)

1. carnage (all senses)

Further reading

• “carnage” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Middle French

Etymology

Probably from a Norman or Picard (Old Northern French) variant of Old French charnage, itself from char (“flesh”), or from a Medieval Latin carnaticum (“slaughter of animals”), from Latin car?, carnem.

Noun

carnage m (plural carnages)

1. a piece of meat used as bait

Descendants

• ? English: carnage
• French: carnage

References

• charnage on Dictionnaire du Moyen Français (1330–1500) (in French)

English

Etymology

From Middle English sanguinarie, from Latin sanguin?rius.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?sæ??w?n??i/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?sæ??w?n??i/
• Hyphenation: san?gui?nar?y

Adjective

sanguinary (comparative more sanguinary, superlative most sanguinary)

1. (of an event) Involving bloodshed.

   Synonyms: bloody, gory

   • 1625, Francis Bacon, "Unity in Religion" (Google preview):

     We may not propagate religion by wars, or by sanguinary persecutions to force consciences.

   • 1887, Henry Rider Haggard, Allan Quatermain, Chapter XIII:

     " […] every one of which took its rise from some noble family that succeeded in grasping the purple after a sanguinary struggle."

2. (of a person) Eager to shed blood; bloodthirsty.

   Synonyms: bloodthirsty, bloody-minded, butcherous, slaughterous

   • c. 1730, William Broome:

     Passion […] makes us brutal and sanguinary.
3. (of an object) Consisting of, covered with, or similar in appearance to blood.

   Synonyms: bloodsoaked, bloody, gory

   • I was once, I remember, called to a patient who had received a violent contusion in his tibia, by which the exterior cutis was lacerated, so that there was a profuse sanguinary discharge […]

   • 1913, H. G. Wells, Little Wars, Section VI:

     Here is the premeditation, the thrill, the strain of accumulating victory or disaster—and no smashed nor sanguinary bodies […] , that we who are old enough to remember a real modern war know to be the reality of belligerence.

   • 1929, Robert Dean Frisbee, The Book of Puka-Puka (republished by Eland, 2019; p. 117):

     We reached the Point just as a flood of sunset light was dripping from the heavens, staining the lagoon an ominous, sanguinary hue.

Usage notes

• Not to be confused with sanguine. Sanguine can mean “optimistic”, while sanguinary means “bloodthirsty, gory”.

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Translations

Noun

sanguinary (plural sanguinaries)

1. A bloodthirsty person.
2. The plant common yarrow, or herba sanguinaria (Achillea millefolium).