Etymology

sanguinarian

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Today it means: A person who consumes human blood as part of the vampiroid subculture. Full definition →

Latin sanguis
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The story

  1. Latin · derived fromsanguis“blood”
  2. English todaysanguinarian

From Latin sanguis (“blood”, stem sanguin-) + -arian.

Words from the same roots

Latinsanguis all →

consanguinitysanguiferoussanguifluoussanguifysanguigenous

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.