victoriousvocabulary:

REVENANT

[noun]

1. a person who returns.

2. a person who returns, supposedly from the dead.

3. a person who returns as a spirit after death; ghost.

Etymology: from French for ghost, from revenir, “to come back”, from Latin revenīre, from re– prefix for “again” + venīre, “to come”.

[Lenka Simeckova – Ghosts]