adverb
iterum
iterum (not comparable)
Classical[ˈɪ.tɛ.rũː]Ecclesiastical[ˈiː.te.rum]
№ 758 of the 1,000 commonest wordsMille Verba core vocabulary
Meaning
- not comparableagain, anew, once more, repeatedly
Īre iterum in lacrimās, iterum temptāre precandō / cōgitur [...].
[Dido] falls again to tears, again she tries to compel [Aeneas] through prayer ….29 BCE – 19 BCE, Vergilius, Aeneis 4.413–414 - not comparablea second 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.
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.c. 52 BCE, Julius Caesar, Commentarii de bello Gallico 1.44
Latīnē defined in Latin in our graded readers
alterum tempus; nōn semel.iterum adv. — in Mille Verba, Tempus et Numerī
again
iterum — in Viri Romae Facillimi, ch. 1, 22
ĭtĕrum (collat. form † ĭtĕro, Inscr. ap. Fea Framm. di Fast. Cons. Tav. 10, n. 26), adv. acc. sing. n. of compar. form from pronom. stem i- of is; cf. Sanscr. itara, the other; Hibern. itir,
I. again, a second time, once more, anew.
I. Lit.:
ubi rex Agathocles regnator fuit, et iterum Phintias, tertium Liparo, Plaut. Men. 2, 3, 58: iterum mihi natus videor, quia te repperi, id. Poen. 5, 2, 117: iterum ille eam rem judicatam judicat, id. Rud. prol. 19: Livianae fabulae non satis dignae sunt, quae iterum legantur, Cic. Brut. 18, 71: C. Flaminius consul iterum, id. Div. 1, 35, 77: T. Quinctius Pennus, iterum, Liv. 4, 30; Nep. Hann. 5, 3; Hor. Ep. 1, 5, 4: cum is iterum bellum dare dixisset, Liv. 21, 18. — In enumerations: primo quidem decipi, incommodum est: iterum, stultum: tertio turpe, Cic. Inv. 1, 39, 71; id. Font. 8, 16; Suet. Caes. 36; id. Aug. 25; Nep. Hann. 6, 1; Juv. 4, 1.—With other advv., esp. with semel, tertium, etc.: cum his Aeduos semel atque iterum armis contendisse, Caes. B. G. 1, 31; Juv. 3, 134: Venerium jacere iterum ac tertium, Cic. Div. 2, 59, 121: iterum atque tertium tribuni, Liv. 3, 19: semel iterumque, Cic. Div. 1, 25, 54.— Repeated: iterum atque iterum spectare, again and again, repeatedly, Hor. S. 1, 10, 39: iterum atque iterum fragor increpat ingens, Verg. A. 8, 527: iterumque iterumque vocavi, id. ib. 2, 770; 3, 436.— II. Transf., in turn, again, on the other hand:
cum is iterum sinu effuso bellum dare dixisset, having loosed again the fold, Liv. 21, 18 fin.; Just. 21, 4, 6: pares iterum accusandi caussas esse, Tac. A. 12, 65.Charlton Lewis's shorter dictionary for students: the same scholarship in plain, modern definitions.
iterum adv.,
again, a second time, once more, anew: huc revorti iterum, T.: duxit iterum uxorem: Lepidus, imperator iterum: Pennus, iterum (consul), L.: bis rem p. servavi, semel gloriā, iterum aerumnā meā: cum his semel atque iterum armis contendisse, Cs.: iterum atque tertium tribuni, L.: iterum et saepius: iterum atque iterum spectare, again and again, H.: iterumque iterumque vocavi, V.—In turn, again, on the other hand: sinu effuso, having loosed again the fold, L.: iterum accusandi causae, Ta.
Origins
From Proto-Italic *iteros, *iterom, from Proto-Indo-European *h₁íteros (“other”), from *éy (whence is). Cognate with Sanskrit इतर (itara).