repetido

Repetido is an adjective used in Spanish and Portuguese to describe something that occurs again or more than once. It conveys recurrence or duplication, rather than a single, original instance. The term can refer to actions, patterns, sounds, events, errors, or items that appear multiple times.

Etymology and grammar: Repetido comes from Latin repetitus, the past participle of repetere, formed by the prefix re- meaning “again” and petere meaning “to seek” or “to go toward.” In both Spanish and Portuguese, it agrees in gender and number with the noun it modifies (repetido, repetida; repetidos, repetidas). The related noun is repetición in Spanish or repetição in Portuguese, denoting the act or result of repeating.

Usage in Spanish: Repetido is common in everyday language and in formal writing. It can describe a repeated action (un error repetido, una idea repetida), a recurring phenomenon (un tema repetido en la obra), or duplicated data (archivos repetidos). In education, a "nota repetida" might refer to a grade given after a retake. The adverbial form for frequency is repetidamente, meaning “repeatedly” or “over and over.”

Usage in Portuguese: Similar uses apply, with phrases like dados repetidos (duplicate data), perguntas repetidas (repeated questions), or padrões repetidos (repeated patterns). The noun repetição is often used to denote the act of repeating, while repetido describes the outcome or characteristic.

See also: repetition, duplication, redundancia. Repetido and its related forms are common across contexts such as language, computing, music, and literature, where the notion of recurrence or duplication is central.