redivivus
English
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin redivīvus.
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /ɹɛdɪˈviːvəs/
Adjective
redivivus (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
Latin
Etymology
Pronunciation
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [rɛ.dɪˈwiː.wʊs]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [re.d̪iˈviː.vus]
Adjective
redivīvus (feminine redivīva, neuter redivīvum); first/second-declension adjective
Declension
First/second-declension adjective.
| singular | plural | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| masculine | feminine | neuter | masculine | feminine | neuter | ||
| nominative | redivīvus | redivīva | redivīvum | redivīvī | redivīvae | redivīva | |
| genitive | redivīvī | redivīvae | redivīvī | redivīvōrum | redivīvārum | redivīvōrum | |
| dative | redivīvō | redivīvae | redivīvō | redivīvīs | |||
| accusative | redivīvum | redivīvam | redivīvum | redivīvōs | redivīvās | redivīva | |
| ablative | redivīvō | redivīvā | redivīvō | redivīvīs | |||
| vocative | redivīve | redivīva | redivīvum | redivīvī | redivīvae | redivīva | |
Descendants
References
- “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.