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Word: Redivivus
Speech Type: Adjective
Etymology:
late 16th century (in the form redivive, now archaic): from Latin, originally with the sense ‘reused, second-hand’, of uncertain origin; perhaps related to reduvia (also redivia) ‘hangnail’; later probably interepreted as from re(d)- ‘again’ + vivus ‘living’
Audio Pronunciation:
Phonetic Spelling:
ˌrɛdɪˈviːvəs
Dialects: British English
Definition:
come back to life; reborn
Short Definition:come back to life
Examples:- one is tempted to think of Poussin as a sort of Titian redivivus
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