The corpus record — Latin

recidivus

recidivus · adj

falling back

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Where it lives

Ausonii Burdigalensis Vasatis Gratiarum Actio Ad Grati Angratianum Imperatorem Pro Consulatu 1 · 2.41/10k
Psychomachia 1 · 1.67/10k
Troades 1 · 1.47/10k
Carminum minorum corpusculum 1 · 1.18/10k
De Pudicitia 1 · 0.74/10k
De Carnis Resurrectione 1 · 0.44/10k
De Anima 1 · 0.42/10k
Fasti 1 · 0.32/10k
Aeneid 2 · 0.32/10k
Punica 1 · 0.13/10k
Adversus Marcionem 1 · 0.12/10k
Naturalis Historia 2 · 0.05/10k

What it meant

rĕcĭdīvus — Lewis & Short

rĕcĭdīvus, a, um, adj.1. recido,

I falling back, i. e. trop., returning, recurring (rare, and not ante-Aug.; cf. redivivus): febris, Cels. 3, 4; Plin. 30, 11, 30, § 104: semina, Mel. 3, 6, 2: nummus, Juv. 6, 363: mala, Aus. Grat. Act. 33: vita, Tert. adv. Marc. 4, 25 fin.—Poet.: Pergama, restored, rebuilt, Verg. A. 4, 344; 7, 322; 10, 58; imitated in gens Phrygum, i. e. the Romans, Sil. 1, 106; cf. bella, id. 10, 257 (al. rediviva).

In the wild

recidivae Tertullian, Adversus Marcionem 4.25
recidiva Tertullian, De Anima 24
recidiva Vergil, Aeneid 4.344
recidiua Silius Italicus, Punica 1.106
recidiva Ovid, Fasti 4.45
recidivus Claudian, Carminum minorum corpusculum 27.66

6 of 14 attestations shown.

Where it came from

No etymology authority pointer is recorded for this lemma yet — an honest gap, not an omission.

Latin text and lemmatization derived from the Perseus Digital Library (canonical-latinLit), CC BY-SA 4.0. Lewis & Short (public domain) via Perseus. This derived data is shared under the same CC BY-SA 4.0 license.