different between rigor vs thoroughness

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

thorough +? -ness

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?????n?s/, /??????n?s/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /????o?n?s/, /????o?n?s/

Noun

thoroughness (usually uncountable, plural thoroughnesses)

1. The state of being thorough.
2. Attention to detail.

   • Such jobs as weeding, for instance, could be done with a thoroughness impossible to human beings.

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