redivivus

Meanings

1. 1
   adj

   literary, used after a noun: brought back to life, revived, or appearing again in a new form

   The columnist portrayed the ambitious general as Caesar redivivus.

Borrowed from Latin redivivus ("restored to life, renewed"), a word related to Latin vivus ("alive") and vivere ("to live"). English normally uses the adjective postpositively, after the person or thing described.

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