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kohlrabi: kohlrabi: see cauliflower, rape
rabies: rabies: [17] Latin rabiēs meant ‘fury, madness’ (it is the source of English rage). Hence it came to be used for ‘madness in dogs’, and was subsequently adopted as the name of the disease causing this, when it came to be identified. The word was derived from the verb rabere ‘be mad’, as also was rabidus, source of English rabid [17].
=> rabid, rage
annus mirabilis (n.): 1667, Latin, literally "wonderful year, year of wonders," title of a publication by Dryden, with reference to 1666, which was a year of calamities in London (plague, fire, war).
Arabia: 1711; see Arab + -ia. The older name for "the country of Arabia" was Araby (late 13c.).
Arabian: c. 1300, adjective and noun; see Arab + -ian. As a prized type of horse, it is attested from 1660s. The Arabian bird was the phoenix.
Arabic (adj.): early 14c., from Old French Arabique (13c.), from Latin Arabicus "Arabic" (see Arab). Old English used Arabisc "Arabish." Originally in reference to gum arabic; noun meaning "Arabic language" is from late 14c.

Arabic numerals (actually Indian) first attested 1727; they were introduced in Europe by Gerbert of Aurillac (later Pope Sylvester II) after a visit to Islamic Spain in 967-970. A prominent man of science, he taught in the diocesan school at Reims, but the numbers made little headway against conservative opposition in the Church until after the Crusades. The earliest depiction of them in English, in "The Crafte of Nombrynge" (c. 1350) correctly identifies them as "teen figurys of Inde."
atrabiliary (adj.): 1725, from Medieval Latin atrabilarius; see atrabilious.
atrabilious (adj.): 1650s, from Latin atra bilis, translating Greek melankholia "black bile" (see melancholy; also compare bile). Atra is fem. of ater "black, dark, gloomy," perhaps related to root of atrocity. Related: Atrabiliousness.
carabineer (n.): "mounted soldier armed with a carbine," 1670s, from French carabinier (17c.), from carabine "carbine" (see carbine). Italian carabinieri "soldiers serving as a police force" is the same word.
carabinieri (n.): "Italian police" (plural), from Italian carabinieri, plural of carabiniere, from French carabinier (see carabineer).
durability (n.): late 14c., from Old French durabilité, from Late Latin durabilitatem (nominative durabilitas), noun of quality from Latin durabilis (see durable).
incommensurability (n.): 1560s; see incommensurable + -ity.
incomparability (n.): c. 1500, from incomparable + -ity.
inseparability (n.): 1620s, from Late Latin inseparabilitas, from Latin inseparabilis (see inseparable).
intolerability (n.): 1590s, from Late Latin intolerabilitas, from Latin intolerabilis (see intolerable).
invulnerability (n.): 1775, from invulnerable + -ity.
karabiner (n.): coupling device, 1932, shortened from German karabiner-haken, usually translated as "spring hook."
kohlrabi (n.): also kohl-rabi, kohl rabi, kind of cabbage, 1807, from German Kohlrabi (16c.), from Italian cavoli rape, plural of cavolo rapo "cole-rape;" see cole + rape (n.2). Form influenced in German by German kohl "cabbage."
maneuverability (n.): 1917, from maneuverable + -ity.
measurability (n.): 1690s; see measurable + -ity.
memorabilia (n.): "things worth remembering," 1806, from Latin memorabilia "notable achievements," noun use of neuter plural of memorabilis "worthy of being remembered" (see memorable).
memorability (n.): 1660s, from memorable + -ity.
mirabile dictu: 1831, Latin, literally "wonderful to relate." Found in Virgil.
rabid (adj.): 1610s, "furious, raving," from Latin rabidus "raging, furious, enraged; inspired; ungoverned; rabid," from rabere "be mad, rave" (see rage (v.)). Meaning "made mad by rabies" in English first recorded 1804. Related: Rabidly; rabidness.
rabidity (n.): 1831, from rabid + -ity.
rabies (n.): 1590s, from Latin rabies "madness, rage, fury," related to rabere "be mad, rave" (see rage (v.)). Sense of "extremely fatal infectious disease causing madness in dogs" was a secondary meaning in Latin. Known hydrophobia in humans.
strabismus (n.): "a squinting," 1680s, medical Latin, from Greek strabismos, from strabizein "to squint," from strabos "squinting, squint-eyed," related to strobos "a whirling round," from PIE *streb(h)- "to wind, turn" (see strophe). Earlier in anglicized form strabism (1650s). Related: Strabismal; strabismic; strabismical.
vulnerability (n.): 1767, noun from vulnerable (q.v.).
arability: "The quality of being usable as arable land", Mid 19th cent.; earliest use found in Godfrey Charles Mundy (d. 1860). From arable + -ity: see -bility.
acquirability: "The quality of being acquirable; (also occasionally) the capacity to acquire something", Early 19th cent.; earliest use found in William Paley (1743–1805), theologian and moralist. From acquirable + -ity: see -bility.