different between rigidity vs rigor

English

Etymology

rigid +? -ity, from Latin rigiditas.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /???d???d?ti/

Noun

rigidity (countable and uncountable, plural rigidities)

1. The quality or state of being rigid; lack of pliability; the quality of resisting change of physical shape
2. The amount of resistance with which a body opposes change of form.
3. Stiffness of appearance or manner; want of ease or elegance.
4. (economics) stickiness (of prices/wages etc.). Describing the tendency of prices and money wages to adjust to changes in the economy with a certain delay.

Synonyms

• rigidness

Antonyms

• flexibility
• ductility
• malleability
• softness

Translations

References

• rigidity in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.

English

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /????/
• Rhymes: -???(?)
• Homophones: rigger, rigour

Noun

rigor (countable and uncountable, plural rigors)

1. US spelling of rigour
2. (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.

Italian

Noun

rigor m

1. Apocopic form of rigore

Latin

Etymology

From rige? (“I am rigid”) +? -or.

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?ri.?or/, [?r???r]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?ri.?or/, [?ri???r]

Noun

rigor m (genitive rig?ris); third declension

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

Declension

Third-declension noun.

Derived terms

• rig?r?tus

Related terms

Descendants

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, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

Old French

Noun

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

1. harshness; severity
2. stiffness; rigidity

Descendants

• English: rigor, rigour
• French: rigueur

Portuguese

Noun

rigor m (plural rigores)

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

Related terms

• rígido

Serbo-Croatian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /rî?or/
• Hyphenation: ri?gor

Noun

r?gor m (Cyrillic spelling ??????)

1. rigour

Declension

Spanish

Etymology

From Latin rigor (genitive singular rig?ris).

Noun

rigor m (plural rigores)

1. rigour