reiteradas

Reiteradas is a Portuguese adjective in its feminine plural form, meaning repeated or reiterated. It agrees with feminine plural nouns such as solicitações, falhas, observações, or reuniões, and is often used to emphasize repetition or persistence of an action, event, or issue. As a semantic load, it signals that something has occurred more than once and continues to be of concern.

Etymology and meaning: the term comes from the verb reiterar, itself derived from Latin reiterare, meaning to repeat or return to. In contemporary Portuguese, reiteradas connotes not only repetition but often a sense of ongoing or unresolved repetition, frequently appearing in formal, administrative, or legal writing.

Usages and context: reiteradas is common in official documents, reports, and academic texts to describe actions, complaints, or phenomena that have been repeated multiple times. It can modify nouns describing problems (reiteradas falhas), requests (reiteradas solicitações), or remarks (reiteradas observações), among others. The expression helps foreground persistence or persistence of the issue and may carry a tone of insistence or concern.

Examples:

- As solicitações reiteradas não receberam resposta adequada.

- Foram registradas reiteradas falhas no sistema durante o trimestre.

- Em suas reiteradas observações, o pesquisador destacou a necessidade de mais dados.

See also: reiterar, repetição, repetidas vezes.