The corpus record — Latin

retendo

retendo · v. a

to release from tension

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Where it lives

Verus 2 · 9.72/10k
Opilius Macrinus 2 · 8.03/10k
Miltiades 1 · 7.5/10k
Commodus Antoninus 2 · 5.77/10k
Pro Rege Deiotaro 2 · 5.12/10k
Antoninus Caracallus 1 · 4.9/10k
Helvius Pertinax 1 · 3.85/10k
Pro M. Scauro 1 · 3.37/10k
Pro Q. Ligario 1 · 3.05/10k
De Pallio 1 · 2.92/10k
Ab urbe condita libri, erklärt von M. Weissenborn, books 31-32 - 32 3 · 2.82/10k
Gallieni Duo 1 · 2.72/10k

Densest 12 of 83 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

rĕ-tendo — Lewis & Short

rĕ-tendo, di, tum, or sum, 3, v. a.,

I to release from tension, to unbend, slacken, relax (very rare; syn.: relaxo, resolvo).

I Lit.: lentos arcus, to unbend, Ov. M. 2, 419; Stat. S. 4, 4, 30; in the part. perf.: arcus retentus, Ov. M. 3, 166: arcus retensus, Phaedr. 3, 14, 5.— *

II Trop.: ea quoque, quae sensu et animā carent, velut alternā quiete retenduntur, i. e. unbend, relax (shortly before, remissio), Quint. 1, 3, 8.

In the wild

retenti Lucan, Pharsalia 4.693
retenti Tacitus, Historiae 1.76
retentus Livy, Ab urbe condita 1.5.18.10
retentus Pliny the Younger, Letters 8.14.8
retentus Seneca the Elder, Excerpta Controversiae 3.8
retenti Cicero, Epistulae ad Familiares 16.9.1

6 of 218 attestations shown.

Where it came from

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