different between vigour vs pneuma

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

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ?????? (pneûma, “wind, breath, spirit”), from ???? (pné?, “I blow, breathe”). Doublet of neume.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?nju?m?/

Noun

pneuma (plural pneumas or pneumata)

1. (music) A neume.
2. The spirit or soul.
3. (Gnosticism) One of three levels of a human being, the spirit, along with the body and soul.

Derived terms

• pneumatic

Spanish

Noun

pneuma m (plural pneumas)

1. Obsolete form of neuma.