different between rigor vs inflexibility

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

English

Etymology

From French inflexibilité, from Old French inflectibilité

Noun

inflexibility (usually uncountable, plural inflexibilities)

1. The quality or state of being inflexible, or not capable of being bent or changed; unyielding stiffness

   Synonyms: inflexibleness, rigidity, obstinacy

Translations

References

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