dēnŭō — Lewis & Short
dēnŭō, adv.contr. from dē nŏvo, which never occurs; v. Ruhnk. Ter. And. prol. 26; Oud. App. M. 3, p. 225.; cf.: Fr. de nouveau,
I anew, afresh, again (most freq. in Plaut. and Ter.; elsewh. rare; not in Caes. or the Aug. poets—for syn. cf.: iterum, rursus, ab integro).
I Of the restoration of a thing which has been destroyed, = de integro, anew, afresh, e)k kainh=s:
aedificantur aedes totae denuo,Plaut. Most. 1, 2, 36; cf.:
urbes terrae motu subversas denuo condidit,Suet. Aug. 47:
oportet vos nasci denuo,Vulg. Joan. 3, 7. —
II For iterum, a second time, once more, again:
si parum intellexti, dicam denuo,Plaut. Rud. 4, 4, 59; cf. id. Mil. 3, 3, 3; id. Most. 1, 3, 66:
jam ego tibi Persam adducam denuo,id. Pers. 5, 2, 47:
in Etruria rebellante denuo,Liv. 10, 31:
denuo in voluntarium exsilium proficiscitur,Just. 5, 5 fin. —
III For rursus, of any thing that is repeated (not precisely a second time), once more, again; hence often with verbs compounded with re:
ecce Apollo denuo, etc.,Plaut. Men. 5, 2, 115: So. Amphitruonis ego sum servus Sosia. Me. Etiam denuo? what, again? id. Amph. 1, 1, 238; 1, 1, 139; Ter. Eun. 5, 2, 60:
Sicilia censa denuo est,Cic. Verr. 2, 2, 56:
recita denuo,id. ib. 2, 1, 14.—Pleonast. with redire, Plaut. Capt. 2, 3, 51; cf. id. Truc. 2, 4, 42;
with redauspicari,id. ib. 3, 5, 109;
with respondere,Ter. Eun. 4, 4, 24;
with referre, id. Hec. prol. alt. 30. And sometimes with rursus (rursum),Plaut. Cas. prol. 33; id. Poen. prol. 79. —
IV Like our again (in, I am going back again), Gr. au)=, where an action is reversed (mostly colloquial):
aperi ... continuo operito denuo,and then cover it up again, Plaut. Trin. 3, 3, 76; cf. id. Merc. 5, 2, 14; Ter. Heaut. 4, 6, 4:
et nunc quid exspectat, Syre? an dum hinc denuo abeat, etc.,id. ib. 3, 2, 32:
fiet tibi puniceum corium postea atrum denuo,and then again back, Plaut. Rud. 4, 3, 61:
chlamydem sumam denuo,id. Merc. 5, 2, 79; Auct. Her. 4, 19, 26; cf. Hand Turs. II. p. 278-280.