redivivus
EnglishEdit
EtymologyEdit
Borrowed from Latin redivīvus.
PronunciationEdit
AdjectiveEdit
redivivus (not comparable)
- (chiefly figuratively, postpositive) Living again; brought back to life.
- 1912, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The Lost World[1]:
- "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.
SynonymsEdit
LatinEdit
EtymologyEdit
PronunciationEdit
- (Classical) IPA(key): /re.diˈwiː.wus/, [rɛ.d̪ɪˈwiː.wʊs̠]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /re.diˈvi.vus/, [rɛ.d̪iˈviː.vus]
AdjectiveEdit
redivīvus (feminine redivīva, neuter redivīvum); first/second-declension adjective
DeclensionEdit
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 | |
DescendantsEdit
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
- redivivus in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
- redivivus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette