redivivus

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin redivīvus.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ɹɛdɪˈviːvəs/

Adjective

redivivus (not comparable)

1. (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.

Etymology

From red(i)- +‎ vīvus.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /re.diˈu̯iː.u̯us/, [rɛd̪iˈu̯iːu̯ʊs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /re.diˈvi.vus/, [red̪iˈviːvus]

Adjective

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

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

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.