Esperanto

Proper noun

Rigo ‎(accusative Rigon)

1. Riga (capital of Latvia)

Holonyms

• Latvio

Italian

Noun

rigo m ‎(plural righi)

1. (music) staff, stave

Verb

rigo

1. first-person singular present indicative of rigare

Anagrams

• giro, girò

Latin

Etymology

Either from Proto-Indo-European *reyǵ- ‎(“stretch tight, bind”) or Proto-Indo-European *h₃reǵ ‎(“straighten”), hence related either to regō ‎(“I rule, guide”) or rigeō ‎(“I am stiff”), depending on whether the i is original to Latin.

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈri.ɡoː/, [ˈrɪ.ɡoː]

Verb

rigō ‎(present infinitive rigāre, perfect active rigāvī, supine rigātum); first conjugation

1. I wet, moisten, water or bedew something with a liquid; suckle; bathe.
2. (figuratively) I lead, convey or conduct a liquid to a place; irrigate.

Inflection

Derived terms

Descendants

• Catalan: regar
• Portuguese: regar
• Spanish: regar

References

• rigo in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• rigo in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• Félix Gaffiot (1934), “rigo”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.
• Meissner, Carl; Auden, Henry William (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
  • (ambiguous) to be numb with cold: frigore (gelu) rigere, torpere
    

Veps

Noun

rigo

1. rush, hurry, haste

Inflection

References

• Zajceva, N. G.; Mullonen, M. I. (2007), “гонка, спешка”, in Uz’ venä-vepsläine vajehnik / Novyj russko-vepsskij slovarʹ [New Russian–Veps Dictionary], Petrozavodsk: Periodika