rabies

From Latin rabiēs (“rage, madness, fury”), from rabiō (“I am angry, I am mad, I rave”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈɹeɪ.biz/
• Rhymes: -eɪbiz

rabies (uncountable)

1. (medicine) A infectious 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.

• hydrophobia

• rabid
• rabietic

• rabies in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• rabies at OneLook Dictionary Search

• Baiers, Serbia, braies, braise, rebias

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

1. rabies

• hundegalskab

• “rabies” in Den Danske Ordbog

From rab- +‎ -iēs

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈra.bi.eːs/

rabiēs f (genitive rabiēī); fifth declension

1. rage
2. madness

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

Fifth declension.

• rabidus

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

• 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

rabies

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