Vigour is physical strength and lively energy. With great vigour, renewed vigour, the vigour of youth.
It is used of arguments and campaigns as much as of bodies, where pursuing something with vigour means doing it energetically. Americans spell it vigor, and the adjective loses the u in both countries as vigorous.
1nounvigourPhysical strength and lively energy.
“At eighty, he still walks five miles a day with remarkable vigour.”
vigour is a strength.
Also accepted in games: vigor
Latin vigor comes from vigere, to thrive or flourish.
Proto-Indo-European
*weǵ- — to be lively
Latin
vigor
Old French
vigour
Middle English
vigour
English, today
vigour
Built from
From Middle English vigour, from Old French vigour, from vigor, from Latin vigor, from vigeō (“thrive, flourish”), from Proto-Indo-European weǵ- (“to be lively”). Related to vigil, vegetable, vajra, and waker.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA