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Etymology of rage

Etymology tree Latin rabiō Proto-Indo-European *-yḗh₂s Proto-Italic *-jēs Latin -iēs Classical Latin rabiēs Late Latin rabia Anglo-Norman ragebor. Middle English rage English rage From Middle English rage, from Anglo-Nor

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Source etymology 1

Original entry ↗
noun

Violent uncontrolled anger. · A current fashion or fad. · An exciting and boisterous party. · A subgenre of trap music originating in the United States in the 2020s, characterized by 808s and aggressive, distorted synths.

Selected source glosses provide context, not a complete modern definition inventory

Etymology tree Latin rabiō Proto-Indo-European *-yḗh₂s Proto-Italic *-jēs Latin -iēs Classical Latin rabiēs Late Latin rabia Anglo-Norman ragebor. Middle English rage English rage From Middle English rage, from Anglo-Norman rage, from Late Latin rabia, from Classical Latin rabiēs (“anger, fury”). Doublet of rabies. Displaced native Middle English wode, from Old English wōd ("madness, fury, rage"; compare Modern dialectal English wood (“mad, insane, furious, raging”)); and Middle English hotherte (“anger”), from Old English hātheort (“fury, anger, wrath, rage”).

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  • Inherited-form mentionrageenm
  • Derivation mentionrabiēsla · anger, fury
  • Doublet mentionrabiesen
  • Non-cognate comparisonwodeenm
  • Non-cognate comparisonwōdang
  • Non-cognate comparisonwooden · mad, insane, furious, raging
  • Non-cognate comparisonhotherteenm · anger
  • Non-cognate comparisonhātheortang · fury, anger, wrath, rage

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Source etymology 2

Original entry ↗
verb

To act or speak in heightened anger. · To move with great violence, as a storm etc. · To party hard; to have a good time. · To enrage.

Selected source glosses provide context, not a complete modern definition inventory

From Middle English ragen, from Old French rager, ragier, from the noun (see above). Displaced native Middle English weden (“to rage with anger”), from Old English wēdan (“to rage”), and Old English iersian, among other synonyms.

Relationships mentioned by the source

These are extracted mentions, not a timeline or a verified sequence of immediate parents.

  • Inherited-form mentionragenenm
  • Derivation mentionragerfro
  • Non-cognate comparisonwedenenm · to rage with anger
  • Non-cognate comparisonwēdanang · to rage
  • Non-cognate comparisoniersianang
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