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Adapted borrowing of Latin sanguineus + -ous. Doublet of sanguine.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
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Adapted borrowing of Latin sanguineus + -ous. Doublet of sanguine.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.