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Asturian
Adverb
de nuevo
- again (another time)
Synonyms
Old Spanish
Etymology
From Latin dē (“from”) + novō (“new”), possibly a restructured inherited form of Classical Latin dēnuō (“again, anew”), itself a reduced form of a supposed and unattested Old Latin *dē novōd. Related to Medieval Latin dē novō (“afresh, as a new thing, out of nowhere”). Compare Old Italian di nuovo, di novo.
Pronunciation
Adverb
de nuevo
- (idiomatic) again
c. 1275, Alfonso X,
General Estoria Primera parte, (ed. by Pedro Sánchez Prieto-Borja, 2002, Alcalá de Henares: Universidad de Alcalá de Henares):
- E en aquel departimiento que fue fecho de los lenguages, assí como fue la gente sacada del lenguaje que antes avié, assí estidieron todos como en punto o en somo de seer sacados todos de los sentidos que antes avién, e assí como de nuevo les vinieron los sesos e los sentidos que después ovieron,
- (On the Tower of Babel) Then, in that split of languages, in the same way the people were robbed of the one language they had, so were all almost robbed of all their senses, and once their mind and senses came again to them,
Descendants
Spanish
Etymology
Inherited from Old Spanish de nuevo (“again”), from Latin dē (“from”) + novō (“new”), possibly a restructured inherited form of Classical Latin dēnuō (“again, anew”), itself a reduced form of a supposed and unattested Old Latin *dē novōd. Related to Medieval Latin dē novō (“afresh, as a new thing, out of nowhere”). Compare French de nouveau, Italian di nuovo, di novo.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /de ˈnwebo/
- Syllabification: de nue‧vo
Adverb
de nuevo
- (idiomatic) again, over again, all over again
- Synonyms: nuevamente, otra vez
Hazlo de nuevo, y mejor esta vez.- Please do it again, and also better this time.
- (idiomatic) back
Me olvidé de ponerlo de nuevo.- I forgot to put it back.
Usage notes
De nuevo is more literary than otra vez.
References
- ^ John Butt, Carmen Benjamin (2013) chapter 32, in A New Reference Grammar of Modern Spanish, Kindle edition, Routledge, →ISBN, section 6
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