Etymology

rabies

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Today it means: 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. Full definition →

Latin rabiēs
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  1. Latin · learned borrowing fromrabiēs“rage, madness, fury”
  2. English todayrabies

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

Words from the same roots

Latinrabiēs all →

rage

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