vigour

Etymology

From Middle English vigour, from Old French vigour, from vigor, from Latin vigor, from vigeo (“thrive, flourish”), from Proto-Indo-European [Term?]. Related to vigil, vegetable, vajra, and waker.

noun

  1. Active strength or force of body or mind; capacity for exertion, physically, intellectually, or morally; energy.
    The vigour of this arm was never vain 1717, John Dryden (tr.), Metamorphoses By Ovid, Book the Twelfth
  2. (biology) Strength or force in animal or vegetable nature or action.
    A plant grows with vigour.
  3. Strength; efficacy; potency.

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