FromOld French, fromLatinrigor(“stiffness, rigidity, rigor, cold, harshness”), fromrigere(“to be rigid”).
rigor (countable anduncountable,pluralrigors)
- US spelling ofrigour
- (medicine) A feeling of cold withshivering accompanied by a rise inbody temperature.
- (physiology, informal)Short forrigor mortis.
2005, Jon Courtenay Grimwood,Pashazade, page 4, paragraph 3:Heat always upped the rate at whichrigor gripped a corpse.
Borrowed fromLatinrigōrem.
rigor m orf (pluralrigors)
- rigour/rigor
- precision,exactness
- harshness(of a climate)
rigor m (apocopated)
- Apocopic form ofrigore
Fromrigeō(“I am rigid”) +-or.
rigor m (genitiverigōris);third declension
- stiffness,rigidity
- rigor, cold,harshness,severity
Third-declension noun.
- “rigor”, inCharlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879)A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “rigor”, inCharlton T. Lewis (1891)An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- "rigor", in Charles du Fresne du Cange’sGlossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
- rigor inGaffiot, Félix (1934)Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- William Dwight Whitney,Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “rigor”, inThe Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.:The Century Co.,→OCLC.
rigoroblique singular, f (oblique pluralrigors,nominative singularrigor,nominative pluralrigors)
- harshness;severity
- stiffness;rigidity
- Rhymes:(Portugal, São Paulo)-oɾ,(Brazil)-oʁ
- Hyphenation:ri‧gor
rigor m (pluralrigores)
- rigour(higher level of difficulty)
- rigour(severity or strictness)
- rigidity;inflexibility
- IPA(key): /rîɡor/
- Hyphenation:ri‧gor
rȉgor m (Cyrillic spellingри̏гор)
- rigour
Borrowed fromLatinrigōrem.
- IPA(key): /riˈɡoɾ/[riˈɣ̞oɾ]
- Rhymes:-oɾ
- Syllabification:ri‧gor
rigor m (pluralrigores)
- rigour
