English → Latin
“rage” in Latin
rabiēsrage; madnesssaevitiaA raging; rage, ferocity, fierceness, fury.; Violence, savageness, savagery, cruelty, severity.fūrorto steal, plunder; to take away by stealth, remove secretly, to withdrawīraire, anger, wrathindignātiōdispleasure, indignation, disdainīrācundiairritability, a proneness to anger, hastiness of temper, irascibility, wrathfulnessstudiumstudy; eagerness, zeal; desire, fancyaviditāsAn eagerness for something, avidity, longing, desire; covetousness, greed, avarice; gluttony, hungersaeviōto rage, vent anger; to be furious; to thrash about, move violentlyindignorto scorn or resent; to be indignant
The English word rage itself goes back to Latin rabiō, through rabia.
Riddle & Arnold A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon, 1864
rage s.
Vehemence, fury, rabies; saevitia; furor (only in poetry, and post-Augustan prose). [SYN. in FURY.]
Anger excited to fury, ira (anger): indignatio; iracundia (great rage, violent anger) [Vid: ANGER]: to fall into a rage, indignatione exardescere; ira incendi; into a great rage, iracundia ac stomacho exardescere; iracundia efferri or infiammari: to put anybody in a rage, stomachum alicui movere or facere; iram alicujus concire.
Eager desire, studium (immodicum; e g., a rage for building, *immodicum, or insanum, aedificandi studium): aviditas (insatiable passionate desire; e.g., gloriae, imperandi, etc.): temeritas aliquid faciendi (a rash, thoughtless fondness for doing it: e.g., a rage for play, temeritas lucrandi perdendive, Tac., Germ., 24, 3). To have a rage for anything, omni impetu ferri ad aliquid.
rage v.
To be furious, furere (of persons; of things personified, only in the poets): saevire (to be savagely violent; of persons, and also of things; mare ventis, Sall.; ventus, Caes., B.G., 3, 13, fin.; and poetically of lust, love, etc.).
To be violently angry, indignari: ira incendi, exacerbari, or excandescere: iracundia exardescere, infiammari, efferri.
Quick answer
- What is the Latin word for rage?
- The usual Latin words for “rage” are rabiēs, saevitia, fūror; also īra, indignātiō, īrācundia. The right choice depends on the sense; see the distinctions below.
Entry from J. E. Riddle & T. K. Arnold, A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon (rev. C. Anthon, New York: Harper, 1864), digitised by Fergus J. P. Walsh, CC BY-SA 4.0; Latin markup adapted by latindictionary.co.