rigidus

Latin

Etymology

From rigeō (“I am stiff”) ‎ -idus.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈri.ɡi.dus/, [ˈrɪɡɪd̪ʊs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈri.d͡ʒi.dus/, [ˈriːd͡ʒid̪us]

Adjective

rigidus (feminine rigida, neuter rigidum, comparative rigidior); first/second-declension adjective

1. stiff, rigid, hard, inflexible
2. stern, strict, severe, hard, inflexible

Declension

First/second-declension adjective.

	singular				plural
	masculine	feminine	neuter		masculine	feminine	neuter
nominative	rigidus	rigida	rigidum		rigidī	rigidae	rigida
genitive	rigidī	rigidae	rigidī		rigidōrum	rigidārum	rigidōrum
dative	rigidō	rigidae	rigidō		rigidīs
accusative	rigidum	rigidam	rigidum		rigidōs	rigidās	rigida
ablative	rigidō	rigidā	rigidō		rigidīs
vocative	rigide	rigida	rigidum		rigidī	rigidae	rigida

Derived terms

• rigidē
• rigiditās
• rigidō

 

Related terms

• rigefaciō
• rigēns
• rigeō
• rigēscō
• rigor
• rigōrātus

 

Descendants

• Padanian:
  • Ligurian: reido
  • Piedmontese: rèid, rèidi
• Gallo-Romance:
  • Franco-Provençal: rêdo
  • French: raide, roide
  • Norman: raide (Jersey)
• Occitano-Romance:
  • Old Catalan: règeu
  • Occitan: redge (several dialects)

    Provençal: rege

    Vivaro-Alpine: rege

• Ibero-Romance:
  • Asturian: rixu
  • Mirandese: rézio
  • Old Galician-Portuguese: rigio
    • Galician: rexo, rixo
    • Portuguese: rijo
  • Old Spanish: rezio
    • Ladino: rezio
    • Spanish: recio
• Borrowings
  • → Asturian: ríxidu
  • → Catalan: rígid
  • → Danish: rigid
  • → Dutch: rigide
  • → English: rigid
  • → French: rigide
  • → Galician: ríxido
  • → German: rigide
  • → Italian: rigido
  • → Norman: rigide (Jersey)
  • → Norwegian: rigid
  • → Piedmontese: rìgid
  • → Portuguese: rígido
  • → Romanian: rigid
  • → Spanish: rígido
  • → Swedish: rigid

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.