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rabiosus

rabid, mad

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Where it lives

De Est et Non, Appendix Vergiliana 1 · 58.82/10k
Eclogarum Liber 1 · 3.65/10k
Captivi 2 · 2.31/10k
Saturae 1 · 2.21/10k
Menaechmi 2 · 2.11/10k
Hercules 1 · 1.31/10k
Epistulae 1 · 1.01/10k
Satyricon 2 · 0.66/10k
De Ira 1 · 0.45/10k
Naturalis Historia 17 · 0.43/10k
Tusculanae Disputationes 2 · 0.35/10k
De Medicina 2 · 0.2/10k

Densest 12 of 14 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

1. rabiosus — de Vaan

rabiosus 'rabid, mad' (P1.+). Pit. *rab-1 *ra/-. Schrijver 1991 rejects the connection with Skt. rabh- 'to grab' and proposes to connect ToA rapunie 'desire' and maybe Gr. εραμαι 'to desire, love' instead. Yet this etymology is not very convincing from the semantic side. LIV connects Parth. rf- 'to attack', MoPrav~'to go'. Cheung 2007 derives the latter from a root *rabh- 'to be in violent commotion', which may be … — [de Vaan, s.v. rabiosus, p. 525]

2. răbĭōsus — Lewis & Short

răbĭōsus, a, um, adj.rabies,

I raving, fierce, mad, rabid (rare but class.; syn.: furiosus, furibundus): canis, Hor. Ep. 2, 2, 75; Plin. 29, 5, 32, § 98: homo, Plaut. Capt. 3, 4, 15: fortitudo, * Cic. Tusc. 4, 22, 50: rabiosa barbaraque vox, Petr. 96, 5: stridor (anserum sacrorum), id. 136, 4. — * Adv.: răbĭōsē, ravingly, madly, fiercely, rabidly: nihil iracunde rabioseve fecerunt, Cic. Tusc. 4, 22, 49.

In the wild

rabioseve Cicero, Tusculanae Disputationes 4.49
rabiosa Appendix Vergiliana, De Est et Non, Appendix Vergiliana 24
rabiosus Plautus, Captivi 3.4
rabioso Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 1.29.p25
rabioso Petronius, Satyricon 136
rabiosa Horace, Epistulae 2.2.75

6 of 35 attestations shown.

Where it came from

de Vaan, Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Brill 2008) Treated in de Vaan, Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Brill 2008) s.v. rabiosus (scan p. 525; entry #1455). Root candidates: *rabh-, *rab-, *rebh-.

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