different between vigor vs efficiency

English

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /?v???/

Noun

vigor (countable and uncountable, plural vigors)

1. (American spelling) Alternative form of vigour

Anagrams

• Virgo

Catalan

Etymology

From Latin vig?rem (“vigour”), attested from the 13th century.

Pronunciation

• (Balearic) IPA^(key): /vi??o/
• (Central) IPA^(key): /bi??o/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /vi??o?/

Noun

vigor m (plural vigors)

1. vigour

Related terms

• vigorós

References

Further reading

• “vigor” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “vigor” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “vigor” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

Latin

Etymology

From vige? (“thrive, flourish”).

Pronunciation

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

Noun

vigor m (genitive vig?ris); third declension

1. vigor, liveliness, activity
2. power, strength

Declension

Third-declension noun.

Derived terms

• vig?r?

Related terms

• vige?
• vig?sc?

Descendants

References

• vigor in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• vigor in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• vigor in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• vigor in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• vigor in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

Old French

Noun

vigor m (oblique plural vigors, nominative singular vigors, nominative plural vigor)

1. Alternative form of vigur

Piedmontese

Alternative forms

• vigur

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /vi??ur/

Noun

vigor m (plural vigor)

1. vigour

Portuguese

Etymology

From Latin vig?rem (“vigour”).

Pronunciation

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /vi.??o?/
• Hyphenation: vi?gor

Noun

vigor m (plural vigores)

1. vigour; energy (active strength or force of body or mind)
2. activity

Derived terms

• entrar em vigor
• envigorar
• revigorar
• vigoroso

Spanish

Etymology

From Latin vig?rem (“vigour”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bi??o?/, [bi???o?]
• Hyphenation: vi?gor

Noun

vigor m (plural vigores)

1. vigor

Related terms

• en vigor

English

Etymology

From Latin efficientia.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??f??n?si/

Noun

efficiency (countable and uncountable, plural efficiencies)

1. The extent to which time is well used for the intended task.

   Antonyms: inefficiency, wastefulness
2. (dated) The quality of producing an effect or effects.
   • 1594, Richard Hooker, Of the Lawes of Ecclesiastical Politie

     The manner of this divine efficiency being far above us.

3. The extent to which a resource, such as electricity, is used for the intended purpose; the ratio of useful work to energy expended.

   Antonyms: inefficiency, wastefulness

4. (US) A one-room apartment.

   Synonyms: efficiency apartment, (UK, Ireland) bedsit

Hyponyms

Derived terms

Related terms

Translations

References

• efficiency on Wikipedia.Wikipedia