different between crimson vs sanguine

English

Etymology

Late Middle English cremesyn, from obsolete French cramoisin or Old Spanish cremesin, from Arabic ???????? (qirmiz), from Persian ?????? (kirmist), from Middle Persian; see Proto-Indo-Iranian *k??miš. Cognate with Sanskrit ????? (k?mija). Doublet of kermes; also see carmine.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?k??mz?n/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?k??mz?n/, /?k??ms?n/

Noun

crimson (countable and uncountable, plural crimsons) crimson on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

1. A deep, slightly bluish red.
   • 1904, Arthur Conan Doyle, “The Adventure of the Priory School” in The Return of Sherlock Holmes,^[1]

     To my horror I perceived that the yellow blossoms were all dabbled with crimson.

Translations

Adjective

crimson (comparative more crimson, superlative most crimson)

1. Having a deep red colour.

   • Breezes blowing from beds of iris quickened her breath with their perfume; she saw the tufted lilacs sway in the wind, and the streamers of mauve-tinted wistaria swinging, all a-glisten with golden bees; she saw a crimson cardinal winging through the foliage, and amorous tanagers flashing like scarlet flames athwart the pines.

   • 1950, Mervyn Peake, Gormenghast

     Her crimson dress inflames grey corridors, or flaring in a sunshaft through high branches makes of the deep green shadows a greenness darker yet, and a darkness greener.

2. Immodest. (Can we add an example for this sense?)

Translations

Verb

crimson (third-person singular simple present crimsons, present participle crimsoning, simple past and past participle crimsoned)

1. (intransitive) To become crimson or deep red; to blush.
   • 1885, Alfred, Lord Tennyson, “The Ring” in The Poetical Works of Alfred, Lord Tennyson, New York and Boston: Thomas Y. Crowell & Co., Volume 2, p. 662,^[2]

     Father. Why do you look so gravely at the tower?

     Miram. I never saw it yet so all ablaze

     With creepers crimsoning to the pinnacles,
2. (transitive) To dye with crimson or deep red; to redden.
   • c. 1599, William Shakespeare, Julius Caesar, Act III, Scene 1,^[3]

     Here didst thou fall; and here thy hunters stand,

     Sign’d in thy spoil, and crimson’d in thy lethe.

   • 1811, Jane Austen, Sense and Sensibility, London: Macmillan, 1902, Chapter 28, p. 153,^[4]

     Her face was crimsoned over, and she exclaimed, in a voice of the greatest emotion, “Good God! Willoughby, what is the meaning of this? […] ”

   • 1936, William Faulkner, Absalom, Absalom!, New York: Modern Library, 1951, Chapter 5, p. 138,^[5]

     […] that sheetless bed (that nuptial couch of love and grief) with the pale and bloody corpse in its patched and weathered gray crimsoning the bare mattress […]

Translations

Derived terms

• crimson lake

Related terms

• kermes
• carmine

See also

• (reds) red; blood red, brick red, burgundy, cardinal, carmine, carnation, cerise, cherry, cherry red, Chinese red, cinnabar, claret, crimson, damask, fire brick, fire engine red, flame, flamingo, fuchsia, garnet, geranium, gules, hot pink, incarnadine, Indian red, magenta, maroon, misty rose, nacarat, oxblood, pillar-box red, pink, Pompeian red, poppy, raspberry, red violet, rose, rouge, ruby, ruddy, salmon, sanguine, scarlet, shocking pink, stammel, strawberry, Turkey red, Venetian red, vermillion, vinaceous, vinous, violet red, wine ^{(Category: en:Reds)}

Further reading

• Oxford English Dictionary, 1884–1928, and First Supplement, 1933.

Anagrams

• microns

English

Etymology

From Middle English sanguine, from Old French sanguin, ultimately from Latin sanguineus (“of blood”), from sanguis (“blood”), of uncertain origin, perhaps Proto-Indo-European *h?sh?-én-, from *h?ésh?r? (“blood”). Doublet of sanguineous.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?sæ?.?w?n/

Adjective

sanguine (comparative more sanguine, superlative most sanguine)

1. (literary) Having the colour of blood; blood red. [from late 14th c.]
2. (obsolete, physiology) Having a bodily constitution characterised by a preponderance of blood over the other bodily humours, thought to be marked by irresponsible mirth; indulgent in pleasure to the exclusion of important matters.
   • 1592, William Shakespeare, Titus Andronicus iv 2

     What, what, ye sanguine, shallow-hearted boys!

   • 1597, William Shakespeare, 1 Hen IV ii 4

     I'll be no longer guilty of this sin; this sanguine coward, this

     bed-presser, this horse-back-breaker, this huge hill of flesh.

3. Characterized by abundance and active circulation of blood.
4. Warm; ardent.

5. Anticipating the best; optimistic; confident; full of hope. [from early 16th c.]

   Antonym: despondent

   • 1857, Anthony Trollope, Barchester Towers, Volume the Second, page 79 ?ISBN

     It was clear that Dr. Gwynne was not very sanguine as to the effects of his journey to Barchester, and not over anxious to interfere with the bishop.

6. (archaic) Full of blood; bloody.
7. (archaic) Bloodthirsty.

Usage notes

Not to be confused with sanguinary.

Synonyms

Antonyms

• (optimistic): blue, gloomy, pessimistic

Derived terms

Translations

Noun

sanguine (plural sanguines)

1. Blood colour; red.

2. Anything of a blood-red colour, as cloth.
3. (heraldry) A tincture, seldom used, of a blood-red colour (not to be confused with murrey).
4. Bloodstone.
5. Red crayon.

Translations

Verb

sanguine (third-person singular simple present sanguines, present participle sanguining, simple past and past participle sanguined)

1. To stain with blood; to impart the colour of blood to; to ensanguine.

Related terms

• sangaree
• sangria
• exsanguinate

See also

• (reds) red; blood red, brick red, burgundy, cardinal, carmine, carnation, cerise, cherry, cherry red, Chinese red, cinnabar, claret, crimson, damask, fire brick, fire engine red, flame, flamingo, fuchsia, garnet, geranium, gules, hot pink, incarnadine, Indian red, magenta, maroon, misty rose, nacarat, oxblood, pillar-box red, pink, Pompeian red, poppy, raspberry, red violet, rose, rouge, ruby, ruddy, salmon, sanguine, scarlet, shocking pink, stammel, strawberry, Turkey red, Venetian red, vermillion, vinaceous, vinous, violet red, wine ^{(Category: en:Reds)}

Further reading

• sanguine on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• Guineans, guanines, uneasing

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /s??.?in/

Noun

sanguine f (plural sanguines)

1. (heraldry) A tincture, seldom used, of a blood-red colour (not to be confused with murrey, which is mûre in French).

Adjective

sanguine

1. feminine singular of sanguin

Further reading

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

Interlingua

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?sa?.?wi.ne/

Noun

sanguine (uncountable)

1. blood

Related terms

• sanguinee

Italian

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin sanguinem, accusative of sanguis (“blood”), in reference to the red colour of the stems.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?san.?wi.ne/
• Hyphenation: sàn?gui?ne

Noun

sanguine m (plural sanguini)

1. (uncountable) Synonym of sanguinella (“common dogwood”)
2. A common dogwood plant.

References

• sanguine in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

Latin

Noun

sanguine

1. ablative singular of sanguis

Middle English

Alternative forms

• sanguyn, sangweyne, sangwen, sangewyn, sangwyn, sangwyne, sanguyne, sangueyn

Etymology

From Old French sanguin (and feminine sanguine), from Latin sanguineus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /san??i?n/, /san??wi?n/, /?san?in/, /?san?win/

Adjective

sanguine

1. Having a bloody-red hue; coloured in sanguine or a similar colour.
2. Under the influence of blood as a cardinal humour (inherently or in the current case)
3. Due to the influence or presence of a dangerous profusion of blood.
4. Made of or created from blood (as a humour); bloody.

Related terms

• sanguinarie
• sanguinolent
• sanguisuge

Descendants

• English: sanguine

References

• “sanguin(e, adj.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-12-10.

Noun

sanguine (plural sanguynes)

1. A bloody red colour; sanguine or blood red.
2. A kind of fabric that is sanguine-coloured or the colour of blood.
3. Blood as one of the four cardinal humours believed to influence health and mood.
4. (rare) A swollen region or edema attributed to an excess of blood.
5. (rare) A person primarily under the influence of blood as a cardinal humour.

Descendants

• English: sanguine

References

• “sanguin(e, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-12-10.

See also

• humour
• (four humours) flewme,? coler,? malencolie,? sanguine ^[edit]
• (qualities of the four humours) fleumatik,? colerik,? malencolik,? sanguine ^[edit]