iterum

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Latin

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Etymology

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From Proto-Italic *iteros, iterom, from Proto-Indo-European *h₁íteros (other), from *éy (whence is). Cognate with Sanskrit इतर (itara).

Pronunciation

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Adverb

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iterum (not comparable)

  1. again, anew, once more, repeatedly
    • 29 BCE – 19 BCE, Virgil, Aeneid 4.413–414:
      Īre iterum in lacrimās, iterum temptāre precandō / cōgitur [...].
      [Dido] falls again to tears, again she tries to compel [Aeneas] through prayer [...].
  2. a second time
    Synonyms: dēnuō, rursus
    • c. 52 BCE, Julius Caesar, Commentarii de Bello Gallico 1.44:
      Si iterum experiri velint, se iterum paratum esse decertare; si pace uti velint, iniquum esse de stipendio recusare, quod sua voluntate ad id tempus pependerint.
      If they chose to make a second trial, he was ready to encounter them again; but if they chose to enjoy peace, it was unfair to refuse the tribute, which of their own free-will they had paid up to that time.

Derived terms

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References

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  • iterum”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • iterum in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
  • iterum in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  • Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
    • more than once; repeatedly: semel atque iterum; iterum ac saepius; identidem; etiam atque etiam
    • consul for the second, third time: iterum, tertium consul