retenir
French
verb
Definitions
- (transitive) to retain, hold
- (transitive) to remember
- (transitive) to accept (que that)
- (transitive) to uphold
- (reflexive) to restrain oneself, hold back
Etymology
Inherited from Middle French retenir inherited from Old French retenir inherited from Latin *retenīre, retinēre.
Origin
Latin
retinēre
Gloss
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- retain English
- *retenīre Latin
- *retina Latin
- *retino, *retinīre Latin
- retentio Latin
- retineō Latin
- retinēre Latin
- ritenere Italian
- retener Spanish, Castilian
- *ten- Proto-Indo-European
- reter Portuguese
- retenir Old French
- retenir Catalan, Valencian
- reține Romanian, Moldavian, Moldovan
- retenir Middle French
- retẽer Old Portuguese