iterum
Latin
Etymology
From Proto-Indo-European *i-tero- (“other”), from *éy (whence is).
Pronunciation
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /ˈi.te.rum/, [ˈɪt̪ɛrʊ̃ˑ]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈi.te.rum/, [ˈiːt̪erum]
Audio (Classical): (file)
Adverb
iterum (not comparable)
- again; a second time
- 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.
- 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.
- 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 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
- more than once; repeatedly: semel atque iterum; iterum ac saepius; identidem; etiam atque etiam