Rigor: A word with two different but related meanings in medicine: 1. A chill, usually with shivering, as at the onset of high fever and chills. 2. Rigidity, as in rigor mortis, the rigidity of a body after death. The alternate spelling rigour is chiefly British. From the French, from the Latin rigor, meaning stiffness, from rigere, to be stiff.
-ine is a suffix used in chemistry to denote two kinds of substance. The first is a chemically basic and alkaloidal substance.
tele-. word-forming element meaning far, far off, from Greek tele-, combining form of tele far off, afar, at or to a distance, related to teleos (genitive telos) end, goal, result, consummation, perfection, literally completion of a cycle, from PIE *kwel-es- (cf.