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rigid

See also: rígid

English

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Etymology

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From Middle English rigide, from Latin rigidus (“stiff”), from rigeō (“I am stiff”). Compare rigor. Merged with Middle English rigged, rygged, rugged (“upright like a spine, rigid”, literally “ridged”), from ridge +‎ -ed.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ˈɹɪd͡ʒ.ɪd/
  • Rhymes: -ɪdʒɪd

Adjective

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rigid (comparative rigider or more rigid, superlative rigidest or most rigid)

  1. Stiff, rather than flexible.
    Synonym: inflexible
    Antonym: flexible
  2. Having inflexible thoughts, opinions, or beliefs.
  3. Fixed, rather than moving.
    Antonym: moving
    • 2011, David Foster Wallace, The Pale King, Penguin Books, page 5:
      A sunflower, four more, one bowed, and horses in the distance standing rigid and still as toys.
  4. Rigorous and unbending.
  5. Uncompromising.
    Antonym: compromising

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Noun

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Construction of USS Shenandoah, a rigid (sense 1), showing her internal framework.

rigid (plural rigids)

 
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  1. (aviation) An airship whose shape is maintained solely by an internal and/or external rigid structural framework, without using internal gas pressure to stiffen the vehicle (the lifting gas is at atmospheric pressure); typically also equipped with multiple redundant gasbags, unlike other types of airship.
    The rigid could reach the greatest sizes and speeds of any airship, but was expensive to build and bulky to store. Rigids fell out of favor after the R101 and Hindenburg disasters made the type seem unsafe to the travelling public.
  2. A bicycle with no suspension system.

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Old Irish

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Pronunciation

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Etymology 1

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From Proto-Celtic *regeti (“to extend, stretch, straighten”),[1] from Proto-Indo-European *h₃reǵ- (“to straighten, stretch, rule”).[2][3]

Verb

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rigid (conjunct ·reig or ·raig)

  2. to stretch, to distend
    • c. 800–825, Diarmait, Milan Glosses on the Psalms, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 7–483, Ml. 20a23
      rechti .i. ro·recht ho methi ⁊ inmairi
      distended, i.e. it has been distended by fat and obesity.
Inflection
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Simple, class B I present, reduplicated preterite, s future, s subjunctive
1st sg. 2nd sg. 3rd sg. 1st pl. 2nd pl. 3rd pl. Passive sg. Passive pl.
Present indicative Abs. rigid regair
Conj. ·reig; ·raig
Rel. riges
Imperfect indicative
Preterite Abs. reraig
Conj.
Rel.
Perfect Deut.
Prot.
Future Abs. ririss
Conj.
Rel.
Conditional
Present subjunctive Abs.
Conj. ·riastar
Rel.
Past subjunctive
Imperative
Verbal noun rige
Past participle rechtae
Verbal of necessity
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  • Middle Irish: rigid
    • Irish: righ (“to stretch”)

Etymology 2

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From Proto-Celtic *rigeti (“bind”),[1][4] from Proto-Indo-European *Hreyǵ- (“to bind, reach”).[5]

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rigid (conjunct ·rig)

  2. to rule, direct
    • c. 700, Críth Gablach, published in Críth Gablach (1941, Dublin: Stationery Office), edited by Daniel Anthony Binchy, §30
      Rí, cid ara n-eperr? Arindí riges cumachtu(i) chun[d]rig fora túatha(i).
      The king, why do they call him that? Because he wields [exerts, MacNeill] the power of control [correction, MacNeill] over his people [in a túath].
    • c. 800-840, Orthanach, A Chóicid chóem Chairpri chrúaid from the Book of Leinster, LL line 6094
      Reraig Herind ardrí Molt[...]
      The High King [Ailill] Molt ruled over Ireland...
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References

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  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “1 rigid”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
  2. ^ Matasović, Ranko (2009) “*reg-o-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 308
  3. ^ Matasović, Ranko (2009) “*rig-o- ‘stretch’”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, pages 312–13
  4. ^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “2 rigid”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
  5. ^ Matasović, Ranko (2009) “*rig-o- ‘bind’”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, pages 311–12

Romanian

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Etymology

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Borrowed from French rigide.

Adjective

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rigid m or n (feminine singular rigidă, masculine plural rigizi, feminine and neuter plural rigide)

  1. rigid

Declension

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singular plural
masculine neuter feminine masculine neuter feminine
nominative/
accusative 		indefinite rigid rigidă rigizi rigide
definite rigidul rigida rigizii rigidele
genitive/
dative 		indefinite rigid rigide rigizi rigide
definite rigidului rigidei rigizilor rigidelor
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