redivivus
English
editEtymology
editBorrowed from Latin redivīvus.
Pronunciation
editAdjective
editredivivus (not comparable)
- (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
editLatin
editEtymology
editPronunciation
edit- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /re.diˈu̯iː.u̯us/, [rɛd̪iˈu̯iːu̯ʊs̠]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /re.diˈvi.vus/, [red̪iˈviːvus]
Adjective
editredivīvus (feminine redivīva, neuter redivīvum); first/second-declension adjective
Declension
editFirst/second-declension adjective.
Number | Singular | Plural | |||||
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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
editReferences
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.
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