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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)
- (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], 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 which had been a maiden enamored with Rhodope
1799, Vittorio Alfieri, “Conclusione [Conclusion]”, in Misogallo [The French-Hater], 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], 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.
Further reading
- redivivo in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
Anagrams
Latin
Adjective
redivīvō
- dative/ablative masculine/neuter singular of redivīvus
Spanish
Etymology
From Latin redivīvus.
Adjective
redivivo (feminine rediviva, masculine plural redivivos, feminine plural redivivas)
- reborn, revived, born-again
Further reading