See also: Rigor

English

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Etymology

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From Old French, from Latin rigor (stiffness, rigidity, rigor, cold, harshness), from rigere (to be rigid).

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rigor (countable and uncountable, plural rigors)

  1. US spelling of rigour
  2. (medicine) A feeling of cold with shivering accompanied by a rise in body temperature.
  3. (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.

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Catalan

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Borrowed from Latin rigōrem.

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rigor m or f (plural rigors)

  1. rigour/rigor
  2. precision, exactness
  3. harshness (of a climate)
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Italian

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Noun

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rigor m (apocopated)

  1. Apocopic form of rigore

Latin

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Etymology

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From rigeō (I am rigid) +‎ -or.

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rigor m (genitive rigōris); third declension

  1. stiffness, rigidity
  2. rigor, cold, harshness, severity

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Third-declension noun.

Case Singular Plural
Nominative rigor rigōrēs
Genitive rigōris rigōrum
Dative rigōrī rigōribus
Accusative rigōrem rigōrēs
Ablative rigōre rigōribus
Vocative rigor rigōrēs

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Old French

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Noun

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rigor oblique singularf (oblique plural rigors, nominative singular rigor, nominative plural rigors)

  1. harshness; severity
  2. stiffness; rigidity

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Portuguese

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  • (Portugal) IPA(key): /ʁiˈɡoɾ/ [ʁiˈɣoɾ]
    • (Southern Portugal) IPA(key): /ʁiˈɡo.ɾi/ [ʁiˈɣo.ɾi]

  • Rhymes: (Portugal, São Paulo) -oɾ, (Brazil) -oʁ
  • Hyphenation: ri‧gor

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rigor m (plural rigores)

  1. rigour (higher level of difficulty)
  2. rigour (severity or strictness)
  3. rigidity; inflexibility
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Serbo-Croatian

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  • IPA(key): /rîɡor/
  • Hyphenation: ri‧gor

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rȉgor m (Cyrillic spelling ри̏гор)

  1. rigour

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Spanish

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Latin rigōrem.

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  • IPA(key): /riˈɡoɾ/ [riˈɣ̞oɾ]
  • Rhymes: -oɾ
  • Syllabification: ri‧gor

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rigor m (plural rigores)

  1. rigour
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