English edit

Etymology edit

Borrowed from Latin redivīvus.

Pronunciation edit

Adjective edit

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:
      "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, published 1998, page 43:
      A tall, athletic, tanned man, his smooth black hair slick with oil, long sideburns, neatly trimmed moustache, Clark Gable redivivus.

Synonyms edit

Latin edit

Etymology edit

From red(i)- +‎ vīvus.

Pronunciation edit

Adjective edit

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

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

Declension edit

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 edit

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

References edit

  • 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