rage

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English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɹeɪd͡ʒ/
• Rhymes: -eɪdʒ

Etymology 1

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”).

Noun

rage (countable and uncountable, plural rages)

1. Violent uncontrolled anger.
2. A current fashion or fad.
   • 1864, Samuel Greatheed, Daniel Parken, Theophilus Williams, The Eclectic Review (volume 7? volume 120? page 130)

     This rage for boulevardizing has destroyed the quaint, queer, pestilential streets of old Paris, through which it was our pleasure to wander many years since.

3. (slang, US, Australia, New Zealand) An exciting and boisterous party.
4. (obsolete) Any vehement passion.

Synonyms

• fury
• ire
• apoplexy

Derived terms

Translations

Etymology 2

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”), among other synonyms.

Verb

rage (third-person singular simple present rages, present participle raging, simple past and past participle raged)

1. (intransitive) To act or speak in heightened anger.
2. (sometimes figurative) To move with great violence, as a storm etc.
3. (slang, US, Australia, New Zealand) To party hard; to have a good time.
4. (obsolete, rare) To enrage.

Derived terms

Translations

References

• “rage, n.”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.
• “rage, v.”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.
• “rage”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.
• “rage n.”, in Green’s Dictionary of Slang, Jonathon Green, 2016–present
• “rage v.”, in Green’s Dictionary of Slang, Jonathon Green, 2016–present

Anagrams

• Ager, GRAE, Gear, Gera, Rega, ager, areg, gare, gear

Danish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /raːɣə/, [ˈʁɑːʊ]

Etymology 1

From Old Norse raka, from Proto-Germanic *rakōną, cognate with Swedish raka, English rake. Related to *rekaną (“to pile”) and *rakjaną (“to stretch”).

Verb

rage (past tense ragede, past participle raget)

1. to scrape
2. (dated) to shave

   Synonym: barbere

Conjugation

Derived terms

References

• “rage,1” in Den Danske Ordbog

Etymology 2

From Middle Low German rāken (“to hit, reach”), from Proto-West Germanic *rakōn. Probably related to the previous verb.

Verb

rage (past tense ragede, past participle raget)

1. (transitive, usually negated) to concern, to be of (someone's) business
2. (transitive) to not concern, to not be any of (someone's) business

Conjugation

References

• “rage,2” in Den Danske Ordbog

Etymology 3

From German ragen (“to jut, stick out”), from Proto-Germanic *hragōną, cognate with Old English oferhragan.

Verb

rage (past tense ragede, past participle raget)

1. to jut, stick out, stand out

Conjugation

Derived terms

References

• “rage,3” in Den Danske Ordbog

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle French rage, from Old French rage, from Late Latin rabia.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈraː.ʒə/
• Hyphenation: ra‧ge
• Rhymes: -aːʒə

Noun

rage f or m (plural rages)

1. craze, fad, fashion.

Synonyms

• hype, modegril

Derived terms

• Pokémonrage

Franco-Provençal

Etymology

Inherited from Vulgar Latin *rādica.

Noun

rage f (plural rages) (ORB, broad)

1. root

   Synonym: racena

References

• rage in Lo trèsor Arpitan – on arpitan.eu

Further information

• Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002) “*radĭca”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch, volume 10: R, page 16

French

Etymology

Inherited from Middle French rage, from Old French rage, from Late Latin rabia, from Classical Latin rabiēs.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ʁaʒ/

Noun

rage f (plural rages)

1. rage (fury, anger)
2. rabies (disease)

Derived terms

• enrager
• fou de rage
• faire rage
• rage de dents
• rage au volant
• vert de rage

Descendants

• → German: Rage

Further reading

• “rage”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Anagrams

• gare, garé, géra

German

Verb

rage

1. inflection of ragen:
   1. first-person singular present
   2. first/third-person singular subjunctive I
   3. singular imperative

Middle French

Alternative forms

• raige (uncommon)

Etymology

Inherited from Old French rage, raige, from Late Latin rabia, from Classical Latin rabiēs.

Noun

rage f (plural rages)

1. rage; ire; fury
2. rabies (disease)

Descendants

• French: rage
  • → German: Rage

References

• Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l’ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IX^e au XV^e siècle (1881) (rage, supplement)

Norman

Etymology

Inherited from Old French rage, from Late Latin rabia, from Classical Latin rabiēs (“anger, fury”).

Noun

rage f (plural rages)

1. (Jersey) rabies

Old French

Alternative forms

• raige (uncommon)

Etymology

From Late Latin rabia, from Classical Latin rabiēs.

Pronunciation

• (classical) IPA^(key): /ˈradʒə/
• (late) IPA^(key): /ˈraʒə/

Noun

rage oblique singular, f (oblique plural rages, nominative singular rage, nominative plural rages)

1. rage; ire; fury

Descendants

Romanian

Etymology

Inherited from Vulgar Latin, Late Latin ragĕre. Compare French raire, réer; cf. also French railler, Italian ragliare.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈra.d͡ʒe]

Verb

a rage (third-person singular present rage, past participle not used) 3rd conj.

1. (of animals) to roar, howl, bellow

Conjugation

Derived terms

• răget

See also

• urla, mugi, țipa, zbiera