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“vigor” in Latin
magnusgreat, large, big; (of things) vast, extensive, spacious (of physical size or quantity); great, grand, mighty, noble, loingeniuminnate or natural quality, natural character; nature; disposition, temper, inclination; intelligence, natural capacityvirtūsmanhood, manliness, virility; courage, valor, resoluteness, gallantry; virtue, goodnessvigorvigor, liveliness, activity; power, strengthanimuslife, life force, soul, vitality (that life-giving aspect which animates a thing); conscience, intellect, mind, reason, animaair, breath; life, ghost; soulsanguī̆sblood; descent, descendant, parentage, progeny, blood relative, flesh-and-blood, family, race; blood (consanguinity)
Riddle & Arnold A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon, 1864
vigor
Force, Vid:
Mental force, robur animi or animi vis: magnum, quo aliquis valet, ingenium: ingenii praestantia (high cultivation of the mind): animi firmitas (fortitude of mind or character): virtus (mental or moral strength; fortitude): animi vigor (liveliness or freshness of the mind; opposed to corporis vigor): vis ingenii or simply, ingenium (productive mental power; respecting ingenium, Vid: Hor., Sat., 1, 4, 43, Heindorf): vigor: virtus (fullness of power; both of animate and inanimate subjects): vis vitalis (vital power): animus; anima (the vital principle; to ἐπιθυμητικόν): sanguis (vivacity, as well of the body as of speech; also of the speaker himself). Full of vigor, plenus sanguinis (of persons and things): to lose the true vigor, verum sanguinem perdere or deperdere (of a speaker): the scholastic orations possess less nerve and vigor than those of the forum, minus sanguinis et virium declamationes habent, quam orationes: what vigor is displayed in this book, quantum in illo libro vigoris est (Sen., Ep., 64, 2): vigor of expression or thought, gravitas verborum et sententiarum (Vid: Cic., Or., 9, 32): a man full of vigor, vir fortis: the vigor of a speaker, virtus oratoris: with a certain vigor, cum quādam virtute.
Energy, Vid:
Activity, Vid.
Quick answer
- What is the Latin word for vigor?
- The usual Latin words for “vigor” are magnus, ingenium, virtūs; also vigor, animus, anima. 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.