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.
a verb-forming suffix occurring orig. in loanwords from Greek that have entered English through Latin or French (baptize; barbarize; catechize); within English, -ize is added to adjectives and nouns to form transitive verbs with the general senses âto render, makeâ (actualize; fossilize; sterilize; Americanize), âto convert into, give a specified character or form toâ (computerize; dramatize; itemize; motorize), âto subject to (as a process, sometimes named after its originator ...