rabies

Estimated CEFR level: C2 — Proficiency

Estimated from word frequency; not an official CEFR classification.

Definition

noun an acute viral disease of the nervous system of warm-blooded animals (usually transmitted by the bite of a rabid animal); rabies is fatal if the virus reaches the brain

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

And in another place he says, Archilochum proprio rabies armavit Iambo--A.P. — Cicero's Tusculan Disputations: Also, Treatises On The Nature Of The Gods, And On The Commonwealth, Marcus Tullius Cicero
He looked like a dog sickening for rabies; ominous, surly, on the snarl. — One Woman: Being the Second Part of a Romance of Sussex, Alfred Ollivant
They spread a sort of rabies, and they always tear and worry you first of all." — The Lost Prince, Frances Hodgson Burnett

hydrophobia, lyssa, madness

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