different between rigor vs laxly

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

lax +? -ly

Pronunciation

• (UK, US) IPA^(key): /?læks.li/

Adverb

laxly (comparative more laxly, superlative most laxly)

1. In a lax manner; without rigor or strictness.
   • c. 1913, Walter Ripman, The Sounds of Spoken English: A Manual of Ear Training for English Students, New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., p. 56,^[1]

     The letters e, i, and y in unstressed syllables represent a very laxly articulated sound, for which the sign [i] is used in this book.

   • 1945, Sinclair Lewis, Cass Timberlane: A Novel of Husbands and Wives, Chapter 45,^[2]

     A current of passion, which seemed to come from far outside them, ran through them both, and her hand which had lain so laxly on his shoulder tightened, and he turned toward her.

   • 1961, V. S. Naipaul, A House for Mr Biswas, Vintage International, 2001, Part One, Chapter 5,

     The oil families, whatever their original condition, were too grand. So they searched among the families in soft drinks, the families in ice, the transport families, the cinema families, the families in filling stations. And at last, in a laxly Presbyterian family with one filling station, two lorries, a cinema and some land, they found a girl.

   • 1999, Jeffrey Kluger, “Tears and Trembling,” Time, 4 October, 1999,^[3]

     Just which buildings survived was partly determined by which ones conformed to Taiwan’s sometimes laxly enforced construction codes.

Antonyms

• strictly
• tensely
• tightly