iterum

Latin

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈi.te.rum/, [ˈɪt̪ɛrʊ̃ˑ]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈi.te.rum/, [ˈiːt̪erum]

Adverb

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

• iterō

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