rigour

The story

1. Latin · derived fromrigor“stiffness, rigidity, rigor, cold, harshness”
2. Old French · derived fromrigor
3. Middle English · inherited fromrigour
4. English todayrigour

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

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