Redivivus (adj) (literary) (postpositive)
red-ee-vee-vus
Reborn; come back to life.
Late 16th century: from Latin, from re(d)- ‘again’ + vivus ‘living’.
Example sentences
“One could almost think of him as King Alexander redivivus””
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