rigor

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /ɹɪɡɚ/

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• Rhymes: -ɪɡə(ɹ)
• Homophones: rigger, rigour

Noun

rigor (countable and uncountable, plural rigors)

1. US spelling of rigour
2. (slang) an abbreviated form of rigor mortis.
   • 2005, Jon Courtenay Grimwood, Pashazade, page 4, paragraph 3

     Heat always upped the rate at which rigor gripped a corpse.

Noun

rigor m

1. Apocopic form of rigore

Etymology

From rigeō (“I am rigid”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈri.ɡor/, [ˈrɪ.ɡɔr]

Noun

rigor m (genitive rigōris); third declension

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

References

• 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, 1883–1887)
• rigor in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• rigor in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911

Noun

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

1. harshness; severity
2. stiffness; rigidity

Noun

rigor m (plural rigores)

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

Pronunciation

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

Noun

rȉgor m (Cyrillic spelling ри̏гор)

1. rigour

Etymology

From Latin rigor, rigoris.

Noun

rigor m (plural rigores)

1. rigour