vigor
English
Pronunciation
- (US) IPA(key): /ˈvɪɡɚ/
Audio (US) (file)
Noun
vigor (countable and uncountable, plural vigors)
- (American spelling) Alternative form of vigour
Anagrams
- Virgo
Catalan
Etymology
From Latin vigōrem (“vigour”), attested from the 13th century.[1]
Pronunciation
- (Balearic) IPA(key): /viˈɡo/
- (Central) IPA(key): /biˈɡo/
- (Valencian) IPA(key): /viˈɡoɾ/
Noun
vigor m (plural vigors)
- vigour
Related terms
- vigorós
References
- “vigor”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2023
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 vigeō (“thrive, flourish”) + -or.
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈu̯i.ɡor/, [ˈu̯ɪɡɔr]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈvi.ɡor/, [ˈviːɡor]
Noun
vigor m (genitive vigōris); third declension
- vigor, liveliness, activity
- power, strength
Declension
Third-declension noun.
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | vigor | vigōrēs |
| Genitive | vigōris | vigōrum |
| Dative | vigōrī | vigōribus |
| Accusative | vigōrem | vigōrēs |
| Ablative | vigōre | vigōribus |
| Vocative | vigor | vigōrēs |
Derived terms
- vigōrō
Related terms
- vigeō
- vigēscō
Descendants
- Catalan: vigor
- English: vigor / vigour
- French: vigueur
- Galician: vigor
- Italian: vigore
- Piedmontese: vigur
- Portuguese: vigor
- Romanian: vigoare
- Spanish: vigor
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 with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 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)
- Alternative form of vigur
Piedmontese
Alternative forms
- vigur
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /viˈɡur/
Noun
vigor m (plural vigor)
- vigour
Portuguese
Etymology
From Latin vigōrem (“vigour”).
Pronunciation
- (Brazil) IPA(key): /viˈɡoʁ/ [viˈɡoh]
- (São Paulo) IPA(key): /viˈɡoɾ/
- (Rio de Janeiro) IPA(key): /viˈɡoʁ/ [viˈɡoχ]
- (Southern Brazil) IPA(key): /viˈɡoɻ/
- (Portugal) IPA(key): /viˈɡoɾ/ [viˈɣoɾ]
- Hyphenation: vi‧gor
Noun
vigor m (plural vigores)
- vigour; energy (active strength or force of body or mind)
- activity
Derived terms
- entrar em vigor
- envigorar
- revigorar
- vigoroso
Spanish
Etymology
From Latin vigōrem (“vigour”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /biˈɡoɾ/ [biˈɣ̞oɾ]
Audio (Colombia) (file) - Rhymes: -oɾ
- Syllabification: vi‧gor
Noun
vigor m (plural vigores)
- vigor
Derived terms
- en vigor
- vigorizar
Related terms
- vigoroso
Further reading
- “vigor”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014