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6-letter words (3 found)

BRAISE,ERBIAS,RABIES,

5-letter words (24 found)

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4-letter words (40 found)

ABER,ABRI,AIRS,ARBS,ARES,ARIS,ARSE,BAES,BARE,BARS,BASE,BEAR,BIAS,BIER,BISE,BRAE,BRAS,BREI,BRIE,BRIS,EARS,ERAS,IRES,ISBA,RABI,RAIS,RASE,REBS,REIS,RIAS,RIBA,RIBS,RISE,SABE,SAIR,SARI,SEAR,SEIR,SERA,SIRE,

3-letter words (34 found)

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2-letter words (14 found)

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1-letter words (1 found)

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Definitions and meaning of rabies

rabies

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈɹeɪ.biːz/
  • 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

  • baby rabies
  • furious rabies
  • rabid
  • rabietic

Descendants

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

Translations

Further reading

  • rabies on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
  • “rabies”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
  • “rabies”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.

Anagrams

  • Baiers, Serbia, braies, braise, rebias

Danish

Noun

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

  1. rabies

Declension

Synonyms

  • hundegalskab

References

  • “rabies” in Den Danske Ordbog

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

  • “rabies” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation — Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic Indonesia, 2016.

Latin

Alternative forms

  • rabia (late)

Etymology

From rabiō +‎ -iēs.

Pronunciation

  • (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈra.bi.eːs/, [ˈräbieːs̠]
  • (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈra.bi.es/, [ˈräːbies]

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.

Derived terms

  • rabidus

Descendants

  • → English: rabies
  • → Portuguese: rabia
  • → Romanian: rabie

Reflexes of the late variant rabia:

  • Italo-Romance:
    • Italian: rabbia, (Arcevia) raggia
  • Padanian:
    • Gallo-Italic:
      • Emilian: ràbia, râbia
      • Ligurian: ragia
      • Lombard: reba
      • Piedmontese: rabia, ragia
    • Romansch: ravgia, rabgia
    • Venetian: rabia
  • Gallo-Romance:
    • Catalan: ràbia
    • Franco-Provençal: rage, razhe, radze
    • Old French: rage (see there for further descendants)
    • Gascon: arrauja, arrauje
    • Occitan: ràbia, rauja
      Provençal: raja
  • Ibero-Romance:
    • Old Galician-Portuguese: ravia, raiva
      • Galician: rabia, raiba; raiva
      • Portuguese: raiva
    • Old Spanish: rabia
      • Spanish: rabia
    • → Basque: errabia
  • Insular Romance:
    • ⇒ Sardinian: arrajolare (Logudorese)

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

  • fradga (“froth”)

References

  • rabies in Svensk ordbok (SO)
  • rabies in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
  • rabies in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)

Source: wiktionary.org