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redivivus
redivivus
English
Adjective
redivivus (not comparable)
- (chiefly figuratively, postpositive) Living again; brought back to life.
- 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.
- 1979, André Brink, A Dry White Season, Vintage 1998, p. 43:
Synonyms
Latin
Etymology
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /re.diˈwiː.wus/, [rɛ.dɪˈwiː.wʊs]
Adjective
redivīvus m (feminine redivīva, neuter redivīvum); first/second declension
Inflection
First/second declension.
| 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 | |
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, 1883–1887)
- Félix Gaffiot (1934), “redivivus”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.