different between vigour vs elan

English

Alternative forms

• vigor (US)
• vygour (obsolete)

Etymology

From Middle English vigour, from Old French vigour, from vigor, from Latin vigor, from vigeo (“thrive, flourish”), from Proto-Indo-European [Term?].

Related to vigil.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?v???/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?v???/
• Rhymes: -???(?)

Noun

vigour (countable and uncountable, plural vigours)

1. Active strength or force of body or mind; capacity for exertion, physically, intellectually, or morally; energy.
2. (biology) Strength or force in animal or vegetable nature or action.

   A plant grows with vigour.

3. Strength; efficacy; potency.
   • 1667, John Milton, Paradise Lost:

     But in the fruithful earth: there first receiv'd / His beams, unactive else, their vigour find.

Usage notes

Vigour and its derivatives commonly imply active strength, or the power of action and exertion, in distinction from passive strength, or strength to endure.

Derived terms

• envigorate
• vigorous
• hybrid vigor/hybrid vigour

Related terms

• vegetable
• vigil

Translations

Old French

Noun

vigour m (oblique plural vigours, nominative singular vigours, nominative plural vigour)

1. Alternative form of vigur

English

Alternative forms

• élan

Etymology

From French élan

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /e??l??n/

Noun

elan (countable and uncountable, plural elans)

1. ardor or zeal inspired by passion or enthusiasm.

Related terms

• lance, lancet

References

Anagrams

• Alne, Lane, Lean, Lena, Nale, Neal, enal, lane, lean, nale, neal

Azerbaijani

Alternative forms

• e'lan (superseded)

Etymology

From Arabic ????????? (?i?l?n).

Noun

elan (definite accusative elan?, plural elanlar)

1. announcement

Declension

Derived terms

• elan etm?k (“to announce”)

Estonian

Verb

elan

1. First-person singular present form of elama.

Romanian

Etymology 1

From French élan (“moose”)

Noun

elan m (plural elani)

1. elk, moose (Alces alces)

Declension

Etymology 2

From French élan of élancer

Noun

elan n (plural elanuri)

1. élan

Declension