Etymology Explorer
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Where does “rigide” come from?
rigide (Middle English) comes from Latin rigidus, from Latin -idus, from Proto-Italic *-iðos.
Ancestry of “rigide”, step by step
Step
Language
Word
Meaning
1
Latin
rigidus
stiff, rigid, hard, inflexible; stern, strict,...
2
Latin
-idus
tending to
3
Proto-Italic
*-iðos
—
Words derived from “rigide”
rigid
rigidity
rigidly
nonrigid
semirigid
rigidness
rigidification
rigidify
rigidifier
overrigid
nonrigidity
subrigid
unrigid
rigidize
superrigid
rigidulous
rigidise
multirigid
rigidi
superrigidity
nonrigidly
overrigidly
rigidizable
semirigidity
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