Etymology

vigour

vi·gor
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Today it means: Active strength or force of body or mind; a capacity for exertion, physically, intellectually, or morally; energy. Full definition →

Middle English vigour ← Old French vigour ← Latin vigor
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The story

  1. Proto-Indo-European · derived from*weǵ-“to be lively”
  2. Latin · derived fromvigor
  3. Old French · derived fromvigour
  4. Middle English · inherited fromvigour
  5. English todayvigour

From Middle English vigour, from Old French vigour, from vigor, from Latin vigor, from vigeō (“thrive, flourish”), from Proto-Indo-European *weǵ- (“to be lively”). Related to vigil, vegetable, vajra, and waker.

Words from the same roots

Latinvigor all →

vigorous

Proto-Indo-European*weǵ- all →

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