English → Latin
“rigor” in Latin
rigōto irrigate, to lead, convey or conduct (a liquid to a place); to wet, moisten, water or bedew something with a liquid; asperitāsunevenness, roughness; harshness, sharpness, acidity, tartness; severity, fierceness, asperitysaevitiaA raging; rage, ferocity, fierceness, fury.; Violence, savageness, savagery, cruelty, severity.acerbitāssourness of taste, with bitterness and astringency, like that of unripe fruit; harshness, severity; sorrowaustēritāsbitterness, harshness, sourness, astringency; darkness, dinginess, sombreness; severity, austerity, strictness, sternnesfrīguscold, coldness, coolness, chilliness; the cold of winter; winter; frost; the coldness of death; deathhiemswinter; storm, stormy weather, tempest
Riddle & Arnold A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon, 1864
rigor
In a physical sense, rigor (e.g., of the cold, frigoris): asperitas (roughness, asperity; e.g., of the winter, hiemis): saevitia (e.g., frigoris hiemis, excessive cold).
In a moral sense, severitas rigor: acerbitas: austeritas: saevitia. SYN. in SEVERITY.
Quick answer
- What is the Latin word for rigor?
- The usual Latin words for “rigor” are rigō, asperitās, saevitia; also acerbitās, austēritās, frīgus. The right choice depends on the sense; see the distinctions below.
Entry from J. E. Riddle & T. K. Arnold, A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon (rev. C. Anthon, New York: Harper, 1864), digitised by Fergus J. P. Walsh, CC BY-SA 4.0; Latin markup adapted by latindictionary.co.