rigol

See also: ri•gol

English

Etymology

From Middle English rigol, from Middle French rigole. Doublet of rail, regal, regula, and rule.

Noun

rigol (plural rigols)

1. (obsolete) A circle.
   • 1594, William Shakespeare, Lucrece (First Quarto)‎^[1], London: […] Richard Field, for Iohn Harrison, […], →OCLC:

     About the mourning and congealed face
     Of that black blood a watery rigol goes,
     Which seems to weep upon the tainted place:

2. (obsolete) A diadem, crown (ornamental headband worn as a badge of royalty).
   • c. 1596–1599 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Second Part of Henry the Fourth, […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene v]:

     […] this is a sleep
     That from this golden rigol hath divorc’d
     So many English kings.

3. (nautical) A ridge or channel above a porthole to redirect water flow from dripping inside the vessel.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “rigol”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Descendants

• → Welsh: rhigol (“groove, furrow”)

Czech

Etymology

From French rigole.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈrɪɡol]
• Hyphenation: ri‧gol
• Rhymes: -ɡol

Noun

rigol m inan

1. a small gutter to drain water away
2. (colloquial) a pothole

Declension

Declension of rigol (hard masculine inanimate)

	singular	plural
nominative	rigol	rigoly
genitive	rigolu	rigolů
dative	rigolu	rigolům
accusative	rigol	rigoly
vocative	rigole	rigoly
locative	rigolu	rigolech
instrumental	rigolem	rigoly

Further reading

• “rigol”, in Příruční slovník jazyka českého (in Czech), 1935–1957
• “rigol”, in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého (in Czech), 1960–1971, 1989
• “rigol”, in Internetová jazyková příručka (in Czech)