Where does “revival” come from?
Revival comes from English revive, derived from Latin revivō (to live again), formed from the prefix re- (again) and the root gʷeih₃w- (to live), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European.
revival (English): The act of reviving, or the state of being...
Definitions
- The act of reviving, or the state of being...
Ancestry of “revival”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | revive | To return to life; to become reanimated or... |
| 2 | Middle English | reviven | — |
| 3 | Latin | revivere | present active infinitive of revīvō |
| 4 | Latin | vivere | present active infinitive of vīvō; second-person... |
| 5 | Latin | vivo | I live; I am alive, I survive; I reside in |
| 6 | Proto-Italic | gʷīwō | live, be alive |
| 7 | Proto-Indo-European | gʷíh₃weti | to live, to be alive |
| 8 | Proto-Indo-European | gʷih₃wós | alive, living |
| 9 | Proto-Indo-European | gʷeih₃w- | to live |