rabies

See also: rabiés and ràbies

English

A dog infected with rabies

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin rabiēs (rage, madness, fury). Doublet of rage.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈɹeɪ.biːz/
  • (file)
  • Rhymes: -eɪbiːz

Noun

rabies (uncountable)

  1. (pathology) An infectious disease caused by species of Lyssavirus that causes acute encephalitis in warm-blooded animals and people, characterised by abnormal behaviour such as biting, excitement, aggressiveness, and dementia, followed by paralysis and death.
    Synonyms: hydrophobia, lyssa

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Danish

Noun

rabies c (singular definite rabiesen, not used in plural form)

  1. rabies

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Indonesian

Etymology

Internationalism, borrowed from Dutch rabiës, from Latin rabies (madness).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ra.ˈbi.ɛs/
  • Rhymes: -ɛs, -s
  • Hyphenation: ra‧bi‧es

Noun

rabies (first-person possessive rabiesku, second-person possessive rabiesmu, third-person possessive rabiesnya)

  1. (pathology, neurology) rabies: an infectious disease caused by species of Lyssavirus that causes acute encephalitis in warm-blooded animals and people, characterised by abnormal behaviour such as biting, excitement, aggressiveness, and dementia, followed by paralysis and death.
    Synonym: anjing gila

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Latin

Etymology

From rabiō + -iēs.

Pronunciation

Noun

rabiēs f (genitive rabiēī); fifth declension

  1. rage
  2. madness

Declension

  • The genitive singular appears as rabiēs in Lucretius. The nominative, accusative and ablative singular are the only attested forms in Classical Latin.

Fifth-declension noun.

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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Descendants

  • Late Latin: rabia (see there for further descendants)
  • Occitan: rabi (Provençal; the variant ragi is contaminated by raja < rabia)

Borrowings:

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
  • rabies in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette

Spanish

Verb

rabies

  1. second-person singular present subjunctive of rabiar

Swedish

Noun

rabies c (uncountable)

  1. (medicine) rabies
    Synonym: vattuskräck

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