rigor
See also: Rigor
English
editEtymology
editFrom Old French, from Latin rigor (“stiffness, rigidity, rigor, cold, harshness”), from rigere (“to be rigid”).
Pronunciation
edit- (General American, Canada) IPA(key): /ˈɹɪɡɚ/
- Rhymes: -ɪɡə(ɹ)
- Homophones: rigger, rigour
Noun
editrigor (countable and uncountable, plural rigors)
- US spelling of rigour
- (medicine) A feeling of cold with shivering accompanied by a rise in body temperature.
- (physiology, informal) Short for rigor mortis.
- 2005, Jon Courtenay Grimwood, Pashazade, page 4, paragraph 3:
- Heat always upped the rate at which rigor gripped a corpse.
Derived terms
editCatalan
editEtymology
editPronunciation
editNoun
editrigor m or f (plural rigors)
Related terms
editFurther reading
edit- “rigor” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.
- “rigor” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
- “rigor”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2024
Italian
editNoun
editrigor m (apocopated)
Latin
editEtymology
editFrom rigeō (“I am rigid”) + -or.
Pronunciation
edit- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /ˈri.ɡor/, [ˈrɪɡɔr]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈri.ɡor/, [ˈriːɡor]
Noun
editrigor m (genitive rigōris); third declension
Declension
editThird-declension noun.
Case | Singular | Plural |
---|---|---|
Nominative | rigor | rigōrēs |
Genitive | rigōris | rigōrum |
Dative | rigōrī | rigōribus |
Accusative | rigōrem | rigōrēs |
Ablative | rigōre | rigōribus |
Vocative | rigor | rigōrēs |
Derived terms
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editDescendants
editReferences
edit- “rigor”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “rigor”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- rigor in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
- rigor in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- “rigor”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
Old French
editNoun
editrigor oblique singular, f (oblique plural rigors, nominative singular rigor, nominative plural rigors)
Descendants
editPortuguese
editPronunciation
edit
Noun
editrigor m (plural rigores)
- rigour (higher level of difficulty)
- rigour (severity or strictness)
- rigidity; inflexibility
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editSerbo-Croatian
editPronunciation
editNoun
editrȉgor m (Cyrillic spelling ри̏гор)
Declension
editSpanish
editEtymology
editPronunciation
editNoun
editrigor m (plural rigores)
Related terms
editFurther reading
edit- “rigor”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), 23rd edition, Royal Spanish Academy, 2014 October 16
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