de nuevo

Asturian

Adverb

de nuevo

1. again (another time)

Synonyms

• otra vez, otra vegada

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

• IPA^(key): /de ˈnu͡eβo/

Adverb

de nuevo

1. (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

• de nuevo

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/ [d̪e ˈnwe.β̞o]
• Syllabification: de nue‧vo

Adverb

de nuevo

1. (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.

2. (idiomatic) back

   Me olvidé de ponerlo de nuevo.

   I forgot to put it back.

Usage notes

De nuevo is more literary than otra vez.

Further reading

• “de nuevo”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.7, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2023 November 28