rage

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   Very strong, uncontrolled anger.

   He flew into a rage when he saw the broken window.

2. 2
   noun

   Something that is very popular or fashionable for a short time.

   Those baggy jeans were all the rage in the nineties.

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Simplified etymology

Rage entered Middle English and ultimately comes from Latin rabere, “to rave.” In medieval use it could also mean madness; the related words rabid and rabies come from the same Latin source.

Etymology tree Classical Latin rabiō Proto-Italic *-jēs Classical 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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