rigor

See also: Rigor

English

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• (US) 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. (medicine) A feeling of cold with shivering accompanied by a rise in body temperature.
3. (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

• break rigor
• rigor caloris
• rigorous

 

Catalan

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin rigōrem.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic, Valencia) [riˈɣor]

Noun

rigor m or f (plural rigors)

1. rigour/rigor
2. precision, exactness
3. harshness (of a climate)

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

Italian

Noun

rigor m (apocopated)

1. Apocopic form of rigore

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.

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

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

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

Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin rigōrem.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /riˈɡoɾ/ [riˈɣ̞oɾ]
• Rhymes: -oɾ
• Syllabification: ri‧gor

Noun

rigor m (plural rigores)

1. rigour

Related terms

• rigorismo
• riguroso

 

Further reading

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