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語源

From 中期英語 vigour, from Old French vigour, from vigor, from Latin vigor, from vigeō (“thrive, flourish”), from Proto-Indo-European *weǵ- (“to be lively”).

Related to vigil, vegetable, vajra, and waker.

発音

• (英国発音) IPA: /ˈvɪɡə/
• (米国発音) IPA: /ˈvɪɡɚ/
• 韻: -ɪɡə(ɹ)
• ハイフネーション: vi‧gor

名詞

vigour (countable and uncountable, plural vigours)

1. Active strength or force of body or mind; a capacity for exertion, physically, intellectually, or morally; energy.

   Synonyms: vim, ginger

   • 1717, John Dryden (tr.), Metamorphoses By Ovid‎, Book the Twelfth:

     The vigour of this arm was never vain

   • 1953 April, “Arrears of Station Maintenance”, in Railway Magazine, page 217:

     Mr. Elliot's frank statement that "sloth and untidiness are indefensible" is a sign that the task will be tackled with vigour.

   • 1961, Harry E. Wedeck, Dictionary of Aphrodisiacs, New York: The Citadel Press, page 162:

     A compound of eggs boiled with myrrh, pepper, and cinnamon, taken on several successive days, is recommended by Arabs for strengthening amorous vigor.

2. (biology) Strength or force in animal or vegetable nature or action.

   A plant grows with vigour.

3. Strength; efficacy; potency.
   • 1667, John Milton, “(please specify the page number)”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC:

     But in the fruithful earth: there first receiv'd / His beams, unactive else, their vigour find.

使用する際の注意点

• Vigour and its derivatives commonly imply active strength, or the power of action and exertion, in distinction from passive strength, or strength to endure.

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