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retentio

retentio · f

a keeping back

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Where it lives

De Oratione 1 · 2.23/10k
Lucullus 2 · 1.11/10k
Letters to Atticus 3 · 0.24/10k
Adversus Marcionem 2 · 0.24/10k
De Architectura 1 · 0.17/10k

What it meant

rĕtentĭo — Lewis & Short

rĕtentĭo, ōnis, f.retineo,

I a keeping back, i. e.,

I A holding back, holding in: aurigae, Cic. Att. 13, 21, 3; 13, 25, 1.—Trop., a withholding: assensionis (as a transl. of the Gr. e)poxh/), Cic. Ac. 2, 18, 59, and 2, 24, 78.—

II A keeping back, retaining (postclass.): dotis, Dig. 31, 1, 79; 5, 3, 19; 10, 1, 30: urinae, retention, Cael. Aur. Tard. 3, 8. —

B Preservation, maintenance: societatis, Lact. 6, 10 fin.: veteris disciplinae, Tert. adv. Marc. 5, 3: delicti, i. e. not to forgive, id. ib. 4, 28.—In plur., Vitr. 9, 4.

In the wild

retentione Tertullian, De Oratione 11
retentio Tertullian, Adversus Marcionem 4.28
retentiones Vitruvius, De Architectura 9.1.13
retentionem Cicero, Letters to Atticus 13.21.3
retentio Cicero, Lucullus 59
retentione Tertullian, Adversus Marcionem 5.3

6 of 9 attestations shown.

Where it came from

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