Ligor

Ligor is a term with multiple historical meanings used in different contexts. In Latin grammar, ligor is the first-person singular present passive indicative of ligare, meaning “I am bound.” It appears in classical texts as a verb form describing binding or being bound.

In historical geography, Ligor was an archaic toponym used by European writers to refer to a Southeast Asian port town or coastal region. The precise site associated with Ligor varied among travelers, maps, and chronicles, with some identifications placed on the Malay Peninsula and others along the Thai coast. Over the 18th and 19th centuries the name gradually fell out of use as local and modern toponyms became standard.

Spelling varied in early modern sources, with forms such as Ligor, Ligore, and Lieger appearing in Dutch, Portuguese, English, and French accounts. The etymology of the toponym is uncertain, reflecting the transliteration of local place names by foreign readers rather than a single established source.

Today, Ligor survives mainly in historical literature and in discussions of early modern Southeast Asian cartography and travel writing. The term is often encountered in secondary sources as part of disambiguation when referring to historical maps and accounts rather than as a current geographic designation.

See also: Ligor (geography) disambiguation; ligor in Latin grammar; ligare, the verb from which ligor derives.