redivivo

Italian

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin redivīvus (“restored to life”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /re.diˈvi.vo/
• Rhymes: -ivo
• Hyphenation: re‧di‧vì‧vo

Adjective

redivivo (feminine rediviva, masculine plural redivivi, feminine plural redivive)

1. (chiefly figurative) revived, resuscitated, renewed

   Sembra il padre redivivo ― He's the living image of his father (literally, “He looks like the revived father”)

   • 1763, Giuseppe Parini, “Il mattino [Morning]”, in Opere dell'abate Giuseppe Parini - Volume primo [Works of abbot Giuseppe Parini - Volume one]‎^[1], Venice: Giacomo Storti, published 1803, page 21:

     Quale il sapon del redivivo muschio
     Olezzante all'intorno, e qual ti porge
     il macinato di quell'arbor frutto
     Che a Ròdope fu già vaga donzella

     One hands you the soap of renewed moss, that spreads its smell around, and one hands you the ground fruit of that tree [the almond] which had been a maiden enamored with Rhodope

   • 1799, Vittorio Alfieri, “Conclusione [Conclusion]”, in Misogallo [The French-Hater]‎^[2], London, page 179, lines 1–3:

     Giorno verrà, tornerà il giorno, in cui
     Redivivi omai gl'Itali, staranno
     in campo audaci

     The day will come, the day will return, when the Italians living yet again, will be on the field, emboldened

   • 1904, Luigi Pirandello, “18. Il fu Mattia Pascal”, in Il fu Mattia Pascal [The Late Mattia Pascal]‎^[3], published 1919, page 306:

     Ma io ora, per ripicco, non voglio descrivere quel che seguì [...] quando don Eligio, ancor tutto esultante, mi presentò redivivo.

     But now, out of spite, I'm not going to describe what followed, when Father Eligio, still cheering, presented me as once again living.

Usage notes

• Used almost exclusively to describe someone who is the "living image" of a dead person.

Related terms

• vivo

Further reading

• redivivo in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

Anagrams

• ridovevi

Latin

Adjective

redivīvō

1. dative/ablative masculine/neuter singular of redivīvus

Spanish

Etymology

From Latin redivīvus.

Adjective

redivivo (feminine rediviva, masculine plural redivivos, feminine plural redivivas)

1. reborn, revived, born-again

Further reading

• “redivivo”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.7, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2023 November 28