Noun: rigor
| Singular | rigor |
| Plural | rigors |
Sample Sentences
-
Heat always upped the rate at which rigor gripped a corpse. [2005, Jon Courtenay Grimwood, Pashazade, page 4, paragraph 3:]
Nouns inflected like rigor
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From Old French, from Latin rigor (“stiffness, rigidity, rigor, cold, harshness”), from rigere (“to be rigid”). See: Latin Nouns '
rigor'.