sanguine
DESCRIPTION
A shorter presentation about one of my favourite words.TRANSCRIPT
Zoë: You sanguine about the kinda reception we're apt to receive on an Alliance ship, Captain?
Mal: Absolutely. What's "sanguine" mean?
Zoë: Sanguine. Hopeful. Plus, point of interest, it also means "bloody".
Mal: Well, that pretty much covers all the options, don't it?
Sanguine
#1: cheerful or optimistic
#2: reddish or ruddy
#3: covered in blood
Came into English in the early 14th century, from the old French word, sanguin, which meant a type of red cloth.
Since the 15th century, it has also meant cheerful, hopeful, or confident. These qualities
were thought in medieval time to come from an excess of blood, as one of the four humours in
the human body.
Less popular since early 1800s
Less popular than “confident” or “bloody”
Sources
• http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=sanguine&allowed_in_frame=0
• http://ngrams.googlelabs.com/graph?content=sanguine%2Cconfident%2Cbloody&year_start=1800&year_end=2008&corpus=0&smoothing=3
• http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/sanguine
• http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0303461/quotes
Photo Credits
• http://www.flickr.com/photos/myklroventine/245867364/
• http://www.flickr.com/photos/slipstreamblue/2789820428/
• http://www.flickr.com/photos/robo7/2372056809/
• http://www.flickr.com/photos/bridgetmckenz/129510889/
• http://www.flickr.com/photos/manunited/3733814977/
CREATED BY MR O’MEARA