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retinaculum

rein, rope

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Where it lives

Hamartigenia 2 · 3.13/10k
De Cultu Feminarum 1 · 1.95/10k
Georgicon 2 · 1.41/10k
De agri cultura 2 · 1.28/10k
Epistularum 1 · 1.1/10k
Contra Symmachum 1 · 0.83/10k
Satyrarum libri 1 · 0.7/10k
Peristephanon Liber 1 · 0.57/10k
Metamorphoses 4 · 0.52/10k
Carmina 1 · 0.45/10k
Elegiae 1 · 0.4/10k
Silvae 1 · 0.4/10k

Densest 12 of 22 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

1. retinaculum — de Vaan

retinaculum 'rein, rope' (Cato+), retentare 'to keep hold of (PL+), sustinere 'to support, preserve* (PL+), sustentare 'to keep from falling, maintain* (PL+), transtinere 'to provide a link* (PL), Pit *t(e)ne- [pr.], *tenos- [n.] 'snare, stretch*. It. cognates: U. femft/ [3s.ipv.II] 'to hold* < *fe*-e-. PIE *tn-eh r 'to hold', *ten-os- [n.] 'stretch*. IE cognates: MW tannu 'to spread out\ MCo. tan 'take!' < PCI. … — [de Vaan, s.v. retinaculum, p. 627]

2. rĕtĭnācŭlum — Lewis & Short

rĕtĭnācŭlum (sync. retinaclum, Prud. ap. i, n.retineo, I.,

Symm. 2, 147),

I that which holds back or binds; a holdfast, band, tether, halter, halser, rope, cable (only in plur.; but the sing. occurs as v. l. Amm. 30, 4, 4).

I Lit., Cato, R. R. 63; 135, 5; Liv. 21, 28; Col. 4, 13, 1; 6, 2, 4; Vitr. 10, 5; Verg. G. 1, 265; 513; id. A. 4, 580; Hor. S. 1, 5, 18; Ov. M. 8, 102; 11, 712; 14, 547; Stat. S. 3, 2, 32.—

II Trop., a bond, chain, tie: vita abrupit, Plin. Ep. 1, 12, 8: desiderii, App. M. 11, p. 269, 28 (p. 806 Oud.): blanda morarum, Aus. Ep. 8, 1: leges, fundamenta libertatis et retinacula sempiterna, Amm. 14, 6, 5: retinaculis temporis praestituti frenari, id. 30, 4, 4.

Where it came from

de Vaan, Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Brill 2008) Treated in de Vaan, Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Brill 2008) s.v. retinaculum (scan p. 627; entry #1791). Root candidates: *tenos-, *ten-, *terVno-.

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