rigourとは 意味・読み方・使い方

別の表記

• rigor (US)

語源

From 中期英語 rigour, from Anglo-Norman, from Old French rigor, from Latin rigor (“stiffness, rigidity, rigor, cold, harshness”), from rigere (“to be rigid”). Compare French rigueur.

発音

• (Received Pronunciation, General Australian) IPA: /ˈɹɪɡə(ɹ)/
• 韻: -ɪɡə(ɹ)
• 異形同音異義語: rigor, rigger

名詞

rigour (countable and uncountable, plural rigours)

1. Severity or strictness.
   • 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Exodus 1:13–14:

     And the Egyptians made the children of Israel to serve with rigour: And they made their lives bitter with hard bondage, in morter, and in brick, and in all manner of service in the field: all their service, wherein they made them serve, was with rigour.

2. Harshness, as of climate.
3. A trembling or shivering response.
4. Character of being unyielding or inflexible.
5. Shrewd questioning.
6. Higher level of difficulty. (Can we add an example for this sense?)
7. (British) Misspelling of rigor (“rigor mortis”).

派生語

Further reading

• “rigor”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
• William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “rigour”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.