recidivus

From recidō (“to fall back”) +‎ -īvus.

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [rɛ.kɪˈdiː.wʊs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [re.t͡ʃiˈd̪iː.vus]

recidīvus (feminine recidīva, neuter recidīvum); first/second-declension adjective

1. returning, recurring, falling back
2. (poetic) restored, renewed, rebuilt
   • 29 BCE – 19 BCE, Virgil, Aeneid 4.343–344:

     “[...] Priamī tēcta alta manērent,
     et recidīva manū posuissem Pergama victīs.”

     “[...] Priam’s high halls would abide, and by my [own] hand I would set up a restored Troy for the conquered [people].”
     (Similarly, “recidiva Pergama” recurs at Aeneid 7.322 and 10.58.)

First/second-declension adjective.

• recidīvātus

• recidō

• English: recidivous
• Portuguese: recidivo

• “recidivus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “recidivus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• recidivus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.