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Rabies
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rabies
rabies
English
Noun
rabies (uncountable)
- (pathology) A disease caused by species of Lyssavirus that causes acute encephalitis in warm-blooded animals and people, characterised by abnormal behaviour such as excitement, aggressiveness, and dementia, followed by paralysis and death.
 
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viral disease
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Latin
Etymology
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈra.bi.eːs/
 
Noun
rabiēs f (genitive rabiēī); fifth declension
Inflection
- The genitive singular appears as rabiēs in Lucretius. The nominative, accusative and ablative singular are the only attested forms in Classical Latin.
 
Fifth declension.
| Case | Singular | Plural | 
|---|---|---|
| nominative | rabiēs | rabiēs | 
| genitive | rabiēī | rabiērum | 
| dative | rabiēī | rabiēbus | 
| accusative | rabiem | rabiēs | 
| ablative | rabiē | rabiēbus | 
| vocative | rabiēs | rabiēs | 
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References
- rabies in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
 - rabies in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
 - Félix Gaffiot (1934), “rabies”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.