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: (archaic) Arctic dog disease, hydrophobia, lyssa

Derived terms

Descendants

  • Cebuano: rabis
  • Danish: rabies
  • Malay: rabies
  • Norwegian: rabies
  • Swedish: rabies
  • Tagalog: rabis

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Danish

Noun

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

  1. rabies

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Galician

Verb

rabies

  1. second-person singular present subjunctive of rabiar

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

Further reading

Latin

Alternative forms

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

Derived terms

Descendants

Reflexes of the late variant 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
  • 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

See also

References

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