rigens

rigens n

1. (obsolete except in certain set usages) definite genitive singular of rige

Present active participle of rigeō.

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈrɪ.ɡẽːs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈriː.d͡ʒens]

rigēns (genitive rigentis); third-declension one-termination participle

1. stiff, inflexible, rigid, unbending
   • 43 BCE – c. 17 CE, Ovid, The Heroines 5.71–74:

     tunc vero rupique sinus et pectora planxi
      et secui madidas ungue rigente genas
     implevique sacram querulis ululatibus Iden
      illuc has lacrimas in mea saxa tuli.

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   • 29 BCE – 19 BCE, Virgil, Aeneid 8.617–625:

     Ille deae dōnīs et tantō laetus honōre
     explērī nequit atque oculōs per singula uoluit,
     mīrāturque interque manūs et bracchia uersat
     terribilem cristīs galeam flammāsque uomentem,
     fātiferumque ēnsem, lōrīcam ex aere rigentem,
     sanguineam, ingentem, quālis cum caerula nūbēs
     sōlis inārdēscit radiīs longēque refulget;
     tum lēuīs ocreās ēlectrō aurōque recoctō,
     hastamque et clipeī nōn ēnārrābile textum.

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Third-declension participle.

¹When used purely as an adjective.

• “rĭgens”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “rigēns”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers