English

Noun

rabies ‎(uncountable)

1. (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.

Synonyms

• hydrophobia

Derived terms

• rabid
• rabietic

Translations

Anagrams

• braies, braise, Serbia

Latin

Etymology

From rab- +‎ -iēs

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈra.bi.eːs/

Noun

rabiēs f ‎(genitive rabiēī); fifth declension

1. rage
2. madness

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.

Derived terms

• rabidus

Descendants

• English: rabies, rage
• French: rage
• Italian: rabbia
• Spanish: rabia

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.

Spanish

Verb

rabies

1. Informal second-person singular (tú) negative imperative form of rabiar.
2. Informal second-person singular (tú) present subjunctive form of rabiar.