Unnumbered source etymology
Original entry ↗noun
An airship whose shape is maintained solely by an internal and/or external rigid structural framework, without using internal gas pressure to stiffen the vehicle (the lifting gas is at atmospheric pressure); typically also equipped with multiple redundant gasbags, unlike other types of airship. · A bicycle with no suspension system.
adj
Selected source glosses provide context, not a complete modern definition inventoryStiff, rather than flexible. · Having inflexible thoughts, opinions, or beliefs. · Fixed, rather than moving. · Rigorous and unbending.
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *Hreyǵ-der. Proto-Italic *rigēō Latin rigeō Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁-der. Proto-Italic *-iðos Latin -idus Latin rigidusder. Middle English rigide English rigid From Middle English rigide, from Latin rigidus (“stiff”), from rigeō (“to be stiff”). Compare rigor. Merged with Middle English rigged, rygged, rugged (“upright like a spine, rigid”, literally “ridged”).
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