rigidus

Latin

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *Hreyǵ-der.

Proto-Italic *rigēō

Latin rigeō

Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁-der.

Proto-Italic *-iðos

Latin -idus

Latin rigidus

From rigeō (“to be stiff”) + -idus.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈrɪ.ɡɪ.dʊs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈriː.d͡ʒi.dus]

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

• Italo-Romance:
  • Italian: reddo (Tuscan)
• Gallo-Italic:
  • Emilian: reng (Fiorenzuola)
  • Ligurian: reido, réaenu
  • Old Lombard: ridi
    • Lombard: reind (Alpine)
  • Piedmontese: rèid, rèidi
• Northern Gallo-Romance:
  • Franco-Provençal: rêdo
  • Old French: reit, roit, roide
    • Middle French: roide
      • French: roide (archaic), raide
    • Norman: raide (Jersey)
• Southern Gallo-Romance:
  • Occitan: redge (several dialects)

    Provençal: rege

    Vivaro-Alpine: rege

  • Old Catalan: rège, règeu
• Ibero-Romance:
  • Old Leonese: rezio
    • Asturian: reciu, rexu
    • 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, 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.
• William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “rigid”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.