English
rabid
Rabid comes from Latin rabidus ‘raving, rabid, furious, savage, fierce’, and goes back to rabiō ‘to rave’.
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CErabiō‘to rave’
- Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CErabidus‘raving, rabid, furious, savage, fierce’
- Englishearliest quotation 1850rabid
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed
Earlier history uncertain.
Lineage
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CErabiō‘to rave’
- Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CErabidus‘raving, rabid, furious, savage, fierce’
- Englishearliest quotation 1850rabid
Earliest quotation: 1850, Benson J. Lossing, The Pictorial Fieldbook of the Revolution: “He was bubbling over with loyalty, and became rabid…”
Linked words
through Latin rabiō ‘to rave’
Today it means
adj Affected with rabies.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Latin rabiō / rabid