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rabies (n.)
1590s, from Latin
rabies
"madness, rage, fury," related to
rabere
"be mad, rave" (see
rage
(v.)). Sense of "extremely fatal infectious disease causing madness in dogs" was a secondary meaning in Latin. Known
hydrophobia
in humans.
