redivivus

redivivus

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin redivīvus.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ɹɛdɪˈviːvəs/

Adjective

redivivus (not comparable)

1. (chiefly figurative, postpositive) Living again; brought back to life.
   • 1912, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Lost World […], London; New York, N.Y.: Hodder and Stoughton, OCLC 1029993343:

     "Professor Munchausen - how's that for an inset headline? Sir John Mandeville redivivus - Cagliostro - all the imposters and bullies in history."

   • 1979, André Brink, A Dry White Season, Vintage 1998, p. 43:

     A tall, athletic, tanned man, his smooth black hair slick with oil, long sideburns, neatly trimmed moustache, Clark Gable redivivus.

Synonyms

• revived
• restored
• reborn

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Latin

Etymology

From red(i)- +‎ vīvus.

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /re.diˈu̯iː.u̯us/, [rɛd̪iˈu̯iːu̯ʊs̠]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /re.diˈvi.vus/, [red̪iˈviːvus]

Adjective

redivīvus (feminine redivīva, neuter redivīvum); first/second-declension adjective

1. restored to life
2. renewed, renovated
3. secondhand

Declension

First/second-declension adjective.

Number	Singular				Plural
Case / Gender	Masculine	Feminine	Neuter		Masculine	Feminine	Neuter
Nominative	redivīvus	redivīva	redivīvum		redivīvī	redivīvae	redivīva
Genitive	redivīvī	redivīvae	redivīvī		redivīvōrum	redivīvārum	redivīvōrum
Dative	redivīvō		redivīvō		redivīvīs
Accusative	redivīvum	redivīvam	redivīvum		redivīvōs	redivīvās	redivīva
Ablative	redivīvō	redivīvā	redivīvō		redivīvīs
Vocative	redivīve	redivīva	redivīvum		redivīvī	redivīvae	redivīva

Descendants

• Catalan: rediviu
• → English: redivivus
• Galician: redivivo
• Italian: redivivo
• Portuguese: redivivo
• Spanish: redivivo

References

• “redivivus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “redivivus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• redivivus in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• redivivus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette