vigour
English
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Etymology
From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Middle English, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Lua error in Module:parameters at line 95: Parameter 1 should be a valid language code; the value "xno" is not valid. See WT:LOL. vigour, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Old French vigor, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin vigor, from vigeo (“thrive, flourish”), from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Proto-Indo-European.
Related to vigil, and more distantly compare vis and vital, from similar Proto-Indo-European roots and meanings (lively, power, life), via Latin.
Pronunciation
- Lua error in Module:parameters at line 95: Parameter 1 should be a valid language code; the value "UK" is not valid. See WT:LOL. IPA(key): /ˈvɪɡə/
- Lua error in Module:parameters at line 95: Parameter 1 should be a valid language code; the value "US" is not valid. See WT:LOL. IPA(key): /ˈvɪɡɚ/
Audio (US) (file) - Rhymes: -ɪɡə(ɹ)
Noun
vigour (countable and uncountable, plural vigours)
- Active strength or force of body or mind; capacity for exertion, physically, intellectually, or morally; energy.
- 1717, John Dryden (tr.), Metamorphoses By Ovid[1], Book the Twelfth:
- The vigour of this arm was never vain
- (biology) Strength or force in animal or vegetable nature or action.
- Strength; efficacy; potency.
- 1667, John Milton, Paradise Lost:
- But in the fruithful earth: there first receiv'd / His beams, unactive else, their vigour find.
- 1667, John Milton, Paradise Lost:
Usage notes
Vigour and its derivatives commonly imply active strength, or the power of action and exertion, in distinction from passive strength, or strength to endure.
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Old French
Noun
vigour oblique singular, m (oblique plural vigours, nominative singular vigours, nominative plural vigour)
- Alternative form of vigur
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