different between ichor vs sanies

English

Etymology

Sense 1 (“liquid said to flow in place of blood in the veins of the gods”) is borrowed from Medieval Latin ichor, from Ancient Greek ????? (?kh?r, “fluid running through the veins of gods, ichor; watery part of blood, lymph, serum; watery part of milk, whey; gravy; pus; naphtha”); further etymology unknown, probably from Pre-Greek.

Sense 2.4 (“fetid, watery discharge from a sore”) is from Middle English icor, icore [and other forms], from Medieval Latin ichor; see further above.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?a?k??/, /-k?/, /??k?/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?a?k??/

Noun

ichor (countable and uncountable, plural ichors)

1. (Greek mythology) The liquid said to flow in place of blood in the veins of the gods. [from late 17th c.]
2. (by extension)
   1. (chiefly poetic) The blood of human beings or animals; also (obsolete) the clear, fluid portion of blood; blood plasma, plasma.
   2. (chiefly poetic, figuratively) A blood-like fluid.
   3. (geology, archaic) A fluid believed to seep out from magma and cause rock to turn into granite.
   4. (pathology, obsolete) A fetid, watery discharge from a sore; pus.

      Synonym: sanies

Derived terms

• ichorhaemia, ichorhemia, ichorrhaemia (dated)
• ichoroid
• ichorous
• petrichor

Translations

References

Further reading

• ichor on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• chiro, chiro-, choir, chori

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin sanies.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?se?ni?z/

Noun

sanies (countable and uncountable, plural sanies)

1. (medicine) a thin mixture of pus and blood serum discharged from a wound; ichor

Anagrams

• Inessa, Saines, anesis, anises, asines, sansei

Latin

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *h?sh?-én-, oblique stem of *h?ésh?r? (“blood”). Compare Latin sanguis.

Alternative forms

• sania (Late Latin)

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?sa.ni.e?s/, [?s?änie?s?]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?sa.ni.es/, [?s??ni?s]

Noun

sani?s f (genitive sani??); fifth declension

1. ichor, pus, sanies

Declension

Fifth-declension noun.

Descendants

• Sardinian: sanza, sangia
• Picard Old French: sainnie
  • Middle French: saingne, rancle de saingnie (“purulent ulcer”)
• ? Old Catalan: saniar
• ?? Old Occitan: sania
• Portuguese: sanha
• Spanish: saña
• ? English: sanies
• ? Catalan: sànies
• ? Portuguese: sânie
• ? Spanish: sanies

References

• von Wartburg, Walther (1928–2002) , “sani?s”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), volume 11, page 184

Further reading

• sanies in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• sanies in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• sanies in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette