An Etymological Dictionary of Astronomy and Astrophysics

1. To utter or to do something over again or repeatedly. → repeat.
   

2. Math.: → iteration.

Etymology (EN): Iterate “to do again, repeat,” back-formation from iteration, from L. iterationem (nom. iteratio) “repetition,” noun of action from iterare “to do again, repeat,” from iterum “again, for the second time;” cf. Skt. itara- “the other (of the two), another.”

Etymology (PE): Itaridan, from L. iter(um), Skt. itar(a-), as above, and Pers. dialects Kâšâni (Voništun)
târ “the other;” Kurd. tir “the other” + -idan Pers. infinitive suffix.