Rigor

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -ɪɡə(ɹ)
• Homophones: rigger, rigour

Origin

From Old French, from Latin rigor ("stiffness, rigidity, rigor, cold, harshness"), from rigere ("to be rigid").

Full definition of rigor

Noun

1. Alternative spelling of rigour
2. (slang) an abbreviated form of rigor mortis.
• 2005, Jon Courtenay Grimwood, Pashazade, page 4, paragraph 3Heat always upped the rate at which rigor gripped a corpse.----