rigor
See also: Rigor
English edit
Etymology edit
From Old French, from Latin rigor (“stiffness, rigidity, rigor, cold, harshness”), from rigere (“to be rigid”).
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Noun edit
rigor (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.
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Catalan edit
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Noun edit
rigor m or f (plural rigors)
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Further 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 edit
Noun edit
rigor m (apocopated)
Latin edit
Etymology edit
From rigeō (“I am rigid”) + -or.
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- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈri.ɡor/, [ˈrɪɡɔr]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈri.ɡor/, [ˈriːɡor]
Noun edit
rigor m (genitive rigōris); third declension
Declension edit
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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References 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 edit
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rigor oblique singular, f (oblique plural rigors, nominative singular rigor, nominative plural rigors)
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Portuguese edit
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rigor m (plural rigores)
- rigour (higher level of difficulty)
- rigour (severity or strictness)
- rigidity; inflexibility
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Serbo-Croatian edit
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rȉgor m (Cyrillic spelling ри̏гор)
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Spanish edit
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Noun edit
rigor m (plural rigores)
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Further reading edit
- “rigor”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014