rabies的词源

英文词源

rabies

rabies: [17] Latin rabiēs meant ‘fury, madness’ (it is the source of English rage). Hence it came to be used for ‘madness in dogs’, and was subsequently adopted as the name of the disease causing this, when it came to be identified. The word was derived from the verb rabere ‘be mad’, as also was rabidus, source of English rabid [17].
=> rabid, rage

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.

中文词源

rabies：狂犬病

来自拉丁语 rabies,发狂，发疯，来自拉丁语 rabere,发狂的，词源同 rage.后用于指狂犬病， 因狂犬病患者极端畏水，也称为 hydrophobia.

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