redivivus

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EnglishEdit

EtymologyEdit

Borrowing from Latin redivīvus.

PronunciationEdit

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ɹɛdɪˈviːvəs/

AdjectiveEdit

redivivus (not comparable)

1. (chiefly figuratively, postpositive) Living again; brought back to life.
   • 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.

SynonymsEdit

• revived
• restored
• reborn

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LatinEdit

EtymologyEdit

From red(i)- +‎ vīvus.

PronunciationEdit

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /re.diˈwiː.wus/, [rɛ.dɪˈwiː.wʊs]

AdjectiveEdit

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

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

InflectionEdit

First/second declension.

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

ReferencesEdit

• 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
• du Cange, Charles (1883), “redivivus”, in G. A. Louis Henschel, Pierre Carpentier, Léopold Favre, editors, Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (in Latin), Niort: L. Favre
• “redivivus” in Félix Gaffiot’s Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette (1934)