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redivivo

reborn

adjective reh-dee-VEE-voh Rare
Descriptions & Qualities Conditions

Origin: From Latin redivivus ('renewed, restored').

Also means

come back to life

Usage Note

Redivivo is used to describe someone who seems to have come back from the dead, or more often as a hyperbolic comparison: un redivivo Napoleone means 'a new Napoleon.' It is almost always used predicatively or in apposition to a noun, and carries a literary or rhetorical register.

Examples

"Si comportava come un redivivo eroe antico."

Natural Translation

He behaved like a reborn ancient hero.

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