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Latin
Etymology
From rigeō (“I am stiff”) + -idus.
Pronunciation
Adjective
rigidus (feminine rigida, neuter rigidum, comparative rigidior); first/second-declension adjective
- stiff, rigid, hard, inflexible
- stern, strict, severe, hard, inflexible
Declension
First/second-declension adjective.
Derived terms
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Descendants
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- Borrowings
References
- “rigidus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “rigidus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- rigidus in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
- rigidus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- “rigid”, in The Century Dictionary , New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.