The corpus record — Latin

redivivus

redivivus · adj

That lives again

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Where it lives

Oratio Consulis Ausonii Versibus Rhopalicis 1 · 47.39/10k
Moretum, Appendix Vergiliana 1 · 12.92/10k
Epitaphia heroum qui bello Troico interfuerunt 1 · 8.33/10k
Cathemerina 1 · 1.36/10k
Octavius 1 · 0.86/10k
Contra Symmachum 1 · 0.83/10k
Carmina 1 · 0.78/10k
Excerpta Controversiae 1 · 0.47/10k
Carmina 1 · 0.45/10k
In C. Verrem 4 · 0.4/10k
Saturae 1 · 0.4/10k
De Architectura 1 · 0.17/10k

Densest 12 of 14 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

1. rĕdĭ-vīvus — Lewis & Short

rĕdĭ-vīvus, a, um, adj.v. re init..

I That lives again (late Lat.; cf. recidivus): Christus, Prud. Cath. 3, 204.—

II Renewed, renovated, of old building-materials used as new: redivivus rudus (opp. novum), Vitr. 7, 1: unam columnam efficere ab integro novam, nullo lapide redivivo, Cic. Verr. 2, 1, 56, § 147. — Subst.: rĕdĭ-vīvum, i, n., old material used again in building: quasi quicquam redivivi ex opere illo tolleretur ac non totum opus ex redivivis constitueretur, Cic. Verr. 2, 1, 56, § 148; cf.: redivivum est ex vetusto renovatum, Fest. p. 273 Müll.

2. redivivus — Walde–Hofmann

redivivus, -@, -um „zurückgelegt, abgelegt, schon gebraucht*, spätl. „wiederkehrend, erneuert* (seit Cic): von reduvia, alat. redivia (s. d.), Sufl. -tvus. Später wurde es an vivere angelehnt, daher „wieder auferweckt, wieder lebendig“ (Christus) seit Eccl. (Stowasser Wb. s. v., Keller Volkset. 155). — [Walde–Hofmann, s.v. redivivus, p. 1331]

In the wild

redivivis Catullus, Carmina lyrics.17.3
redivivo Prudentius, Contra Symmachum 2.1.200
rediviva Minucius Felix, Octavius 8.5
redivivus Prudentius, Cathemerina 3.204
redivivus Juvenal, Saturae 2.6.363
rediviva Sidonius Apollinaris, Carmina 2.417

6 of 17 attestations shown.

Where it came from

Ernout-Meillet, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue latine Treated in Ernout-Meillet, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue latine s.v. rediuiuus (scan p. 591; entry #9692).
Walde-Hofmann, Lateinisches etymologisches Worterbuch Treated in Walde-Hofmann, Lateinisches etymologisches Worterbuch s.v. redivivus (scan p. 1331; entry #2261).

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