revival
/ɹɪˈvaɪvəl/rih-VIGH-vuhl
/ɹɪˈvaɪvəl/rih-VIGH-vuhl
Meaningthe act of reviving
Common meaning: bringing back to life, use or popularity
- reagain; back
- vivto live, be aliveLewis & Short, Latin Dictionary (1879), p. 2001 (approximate) · scan
- aladjective ending: relating to
‘again’ + ‘to live, be alive’ → revival
Journey through time
- Latinvīvō, vīxī, vīctum‘to live, be alive’
- Frenchrevivre
- Englishrevive‘to bring back to life’
- Englishformed in English from reviverevival‘bringing back to life, use or popularity’ · today
Sources & notes
Meaning: “Meaning” is the sense that emerges from the word’s roots; “Common meaning” is today’s everyday sense. Both written by us.
Pronunciation
- UK IPA: converted from the US form by rule (unchecked). Respelling: generated.
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- US IPA: CMUdict (BSD-2), converted to IPA by rule. Respelling: generated.
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Origin: Formed in English from revive + -al.
Dictionary: Skeat (1898), REVIVE, p.507 · scan
Roots
- vīvō, vīxī, vīctum Latin “to live, be alive”
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