rigor

See also: Rigor

English

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɹɪɡɚ/

• Audio (US):

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

Noun

rigor (countable and uncountable, plural rigors)

1. US spelling of rigour
2. (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

• rigorous

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Catalan

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin rigōre, rigor.

Noun

rigor f (plural rigors)

1. rigour

Related terms

• rigorós

Further reading

• “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

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Italian

Noun

rigor m (apocopated)

1. Apocopic form of rigore

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Latin

Etymology

From rigeō (“I am rigid”) +‎ -or.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈri.ɡor/, [ˈrɪɡɔr]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈri.ɡor/, [ˈriːɡor]

Noun

rigor m (genitive rigōris); third declension

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

Declension

Third-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

• rigōrātus

Related terms

• rigefaciō
• rigēns
• rigeō
• rigēscō
• rigidē
• rigiditās
• rigidō
• rigidus

 

Descendants

• Catalan: rigor
• English: rigor, rigour
• French: rigueur
• Galician: rigor
• Italian: rigore
• Piedmontese: rigor
• Polish: rygor
• Portuguese: rigor
• Romanian: rigoare
• Spanish: rigor

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 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.

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Old French

Noun

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

1. harshness; severity
2. stiffness; rigidity

Descendants

• English: rigor, rigour
• French: rigueur

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Portuguese

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ʁiˈɡoʁ/ [hiˈɡoh]

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ʁiˈɡoʁ/ [hiˈɡoh]
  • (São Paulo) IPA^(key): /ʁiˈɡoɾ/ [hiˈɡoɾ]
  • (Rio de Janeiro) IPA^(key): /ʁiˈɡoʁ/ [χiˈɡoχ]
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /ʁiˈɡoɻ/ [hiˈɡoɻ]

 

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ʁiˈɡoɾ/ [ʁiˈɣoɾ]

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

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

Noun

rigor m (plural rigores)

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

Related terms

• rígido
• rigoroso

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Serbo-Croatian

Pronunciation

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

Noun

rȉgor m (Cyrillic spelling ри̏гор)

1. rigour

Declension

Declension of rigor

	singular
nominative	rigor
genitive	rigora
dative	rigoru
accusative	rigor
vocative	rigore
locative	rigoru
instrumental	rigorom

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Spanish

Etymology

From Latin rigor (genitive singular rigōris).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /riˈɡoɾ/ [riˈɣ̞oɾ]

Noun

rigor m (plural rigores)

1. rigour

Related terms

• riguroso, rigoroso

Further reading

• “rigor”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014