reiteratus

Reiteratus is a Latin adjective used in scholarly writing to denote repetition or recurrence. The name is formed from the prefix re- meaning again and the participial adjective iteratus (derived from iterare, to repeat), yielding reiteratus meaning "reiterated" or "repeated."

In taxonomy, reiteratus has occasionally been used as a species epithet or subspecific epithet to indicate a repeating pattern, such as recurring markings, segments, or features observed within specimens or across individuals. Its use is descriptive rather than hierarchical.

In other disciplines, reiteratus may appear in descriptions of iterative processes, patterns in ethnography, or in paleontological contexts where fossil specimens show repeated units or segments. The term is not tied to a particular taxon or clade, and its presence in a name does not imply close relatedness among organisms sharing the epithet.

In scholarly Latin, reiteratus is declined to agree with the gender of the noun it modifies: reiteratus (masculine), reiterata (feminine), reiteratum (neuter). Contemporary usage tends to preserve the Latin form in nomenclature as a conventional epithet rather than a description integrated into modern taxonomic syntax.

See also: Iteration, Repetition, Iter, Taxonomic epithet.