redivivo
Italian
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 [the almond] 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.
Related terms
Further reading
- redivivo in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
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Further reading
- “redivivo”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
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