Etymology

turgor

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Today it means: Turgidity. Full definition →

Latin turgor
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  1. Latin · learned borrowing fromturgor
  2. English todayturgor

Learned borrowing from Latin turgor, from turgēre (“to be swollen”) + -or (forms a third-declension masculine abstract noun from a verb root).

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