iterum

Latin

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *i-tero- (other), from *éy (whence is).

Pronunciation

  • (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈi.te.rum/, [ˈɪ.tɛ.rũ]
  • (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈi.te.rum/, [ˈiː.te.rum]
  • (file)

Adverb

iterum (not comparable)

  1. again; a second time
    • 100 BCE – 44 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.
    Synonym: dēnuō

Derived terms

References

  • 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, 1883–1887)
  • iterum in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
  • Carl Meissner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, 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
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