different between rabies vs plague

English

Etymology

From Latin rabi?s (“rage, madness, fury”), from rabi? (“I am angry, I am mad, I rave”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??e?.biz/
• Rhymes: -e?biz

Noun

rabies (uncountable)

1. (medicine) 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

• hydrophobia

Derived terms

• rabid
• rabietic

Translations

Further reading

• rabies on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• rabies in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• rabies at 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

Latin

Etymology

From rabi? +? -i?s.

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?ra.bi.e?s/, [?räbie?s?]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?ra.bi.es/, [?r??bi?s]

Noun

rabi?s f (genitive rabi??); fifth declension

1. rage
2. madness

Declension

• The genitive singular appears as rabi?s 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, rage
• French: rage
• Italian: rabbia
• Portuguese: raiva
• Spanish: 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. Informal second-person singular (tú) negative imperative form of rabiar.
2. Informal second-person singular (tú) present subjunctive form of rabiar.

English

Etymology

From Middle English plage, borrowed from Old French plage, from Latin pl?ga (“blow, wound”), from plang? (“to strike”). Cognate with Middle Dutch pl?ghe (> Dutch plaag), pl?ghen (> Dutch plagen); Middle Low German pl?ge; Middle High German pl?ge, pfl?ge (> German Plage); pl?gen (> German plagen); Swedish plåga; French plaie, Occitan plaga. Doublet of plaga. Displaced native Old English w?l.

Pronunciation

• enPR: pl?g, IPA^(key): /ple??/, [p?l?e??]
• Rhymes: -e??

Noun

plague (countable and uncountable, plural plagues)

1. (often used with the, sometimes capitalized: the Plague) The bubonic plague, the pestilent disease caused by the virulent bacterium Yersinia pestis.
2. (pathology) An epidemic or pandemic caused by any pestilence, but specifically by the above disease.
3. A widespread affliction, calamity or destructive influx, especially when seen as divine retribution.
4. (figuratively) A grave nuisance, whatever greatly irritates.

5. Collective noun for common grackles

Synonyms

• pest, pestilence

Derived terms

Translations

Verb

plague (third-person singular simple present plagues, present participle plaguing, simple past and past participle plagued)

1. (transitive) To harass, pester or annoy someone persistently or incessantly.
2. (transitive) To afflict with a disease or other calamity.

Derived terms

• plagued
• plaguer

Translations

Spanish

Verb

plague

1. First-person singular (yo) present subjunctive form of plagar.
2. Formal second-person singular (usted) present subjunctive form of plagar.
3. Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted^?) present subjunctive form of plagar.