'Revive' is Latin for 'live again' — from 'vivere' (to live). To bring back from the brink.
To restore to consciousness or life. To give new strength or energy to. To restore interest in or the validity of something.
From Old French 'revivre' (to live again, to come back to life), from Latin 'revīvere' (to live again, to return to life), a compound of 're-' (again, back, anew) + 'vīvere' (to live, to be alive), from PIE *gʷeyh₃- (to live). The PIE root *gʷeyh₃- generated one of the richest cognate families in the language. In Latin, *gʷ- became 'v-' before rounded vowels
The 'Great Awakening' religious movements in America (18th and 19th centuries) were called 'revivals' because they aimed to revive — to bring back to life — religious fervor that had supposedly died or gone dormant. The term entered American English with such force that 'revival' developed a specifically Protestant meaning: a series of emotional religious meetings designed to convert sinners and reignite faith. A 'tent revival' is a peculiarly American institution
Words closest in meaning, ranked by similarity