# vigor
## English
### Pronunciation

* (US) IPA: /ˈvɪɡɚ/
* Audio (US):(file)

### Noun

vigor (countable and uncountable, plural vigors)
* (American spelling) Alternative form of vigour

### Anagrams

* Virgo

## Catalan
### Etymology

Borrowed from Latin vigōrem (“vigour”). First attested in the 13th century.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: (Central) [biˈɣor]
* IPA: (Balearic, Valencia) [viˈɣor]
* Hyphenation: vi‧gor

### Noun

vigor m or f (plural vigors)
* vigour/vigor
* validity
    Synonym: validesa

#### Related terms

* vigorós

### References

* ↑ “vigor”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2025

### Further reading

* “vigor” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
* “vigor” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
* “vigor” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

## Latin
### Etymology

From vigeō (“thrive, flourish”) +‎ -or.

### Pronunciation

* (Classical Latin) IPA: /ˈu̯i.ɡor/, [ˈu̯ɪɡɔr]
* (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: /ˈvi.ɡor/, [ˈviːɡor]

### Noun

vigor m (genitive vigōris); third declension
* vigor, liveliness, activity
* power, strength

#### Declension

Third-declension noun.

#### Derived terms

* vigōrō

#### Related terms

* vigeō
* vigēscō

#### Descendants

* Catalan: vigor
* English: vigor / vigour
* French: vigueur
* Galician: vigor
* Italian: vigore
* Piedmontese: vigur
* Portuguese: vigor
* Romanian: vigoare
* Spanish: vigor

### References

* “vigor”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
* “vigor”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
* vigor 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)
* vigor in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
* “vigor”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.

## Old French
### Noun

vigor oblique singular, m (oblique plural vigors, nominative singular vigors, nominative plural vigor)
* Alternative form of vigur

## Piedmontese
### Alternative forms

* vigur

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /viˈɡur/

### Noun

vigor m (plural vigor)
* vigour

## Portuguese
### Etymology

From Latin vigōrem (“vigour”).

### Pronunciation

* (Brazil) IPA: /viˈɡoʁ/ [viˈɡoh]
* (Brazil) IPA: /viˈɡoʁ/ [viˈɡoh]
** (São Paulo) IPA: /viˈɡoɾ/
** (Rio de Janeiro) IPA: /viˈɡoʁ/ [viˈɡoχ]
** (Southern Brazil) IPA: /viˈɡoɻ/
* (Portugal) IPA: /viˈɡoɾ/ [viˈɣoɾ]
* (Portugal) IPA: /viˈɡoɾ/ [viˈɣoɾ]
** (Northern Portugal) IPA: /biˈɡoɾ/ [biˈɣoɾ]
** (Southern Portugal) IPA: /viˈɡo.ɾi/ [viˈɣo.ɾi]
* Hyphenation: vi‧gor

### Noun

vigor m (plural vigores)
* vigour; energy (active strength or force of body or mind)
* activity

#### Derived terms

* entrar em vigor
* envigorar
* revigorar
* vigoroso

## Spanish
### Etymology

Borrowed from Latin vigōrem (“vigour”).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /biˈɡoɾ/ [biˈɣ̞oɾ]
* Audio (Colombia):(file)
* Rhymes: -oɾ
* Syllabification: vi‧gor

### Noun

vigor m (plural vigores)
* vigor
    Synonym: ímpetu

#### Derived terms

* en vigor
* vigorizar

#### Related terms

* vigoroso

### Further reading

* “vigor”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10