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Rhymes with -æbɪd

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Latin rabiō

Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁-der.

Proto-Italic *-iðos

Latin -idus

Latin rabidusbor.

English rabid

From the Latin rabidus, from rabiō (“to rave”).

Affected with rabies. a rabid dog or fox
Of or pertaining to rabies, or hydrophobia. a rabid virus
broadly Furious; raging; extremely violent. It seems a very likely agreement that the Maestre’s activity against Cabra, at and after Ciudad Real, should be balanced by the service of Aguilar’s brutal underlings in the Rebellion at Fuente Ovejuna." In any event, there were “algunos caballeros (sic) cordobeses a devocién de . . . Rodrigo Girén,
figuratively Very extreme, unreasonable, or fanatical in opinion; excessively zealous. a rabid socialist