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.
When followed by a noun in the accusative case it means into, onto or sometimes â¦ against (e.g. impetum in Persas, an attack against the Persians). The verbal prefix in-can have the same meaning as the preposition, as in, for example, ingredi, to go in; to enter from in-and gradi, to go.ctually that is an English word; the Latin form was originally benevolens..    bene = good   volens = wanting    So it means, wanting good.  Acually I a â¦ m a different person that improved this answer and benevolent is a Latin word. 5 people found this useful.