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retenta

retenta is a Latin form of retineo, meaning “hold back, keep”. It is the perfect passive participle nominative singular feminine.

Found 57 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Caesar, De Bello Gallico 2.32.4: … acervi armorum adaequarent, et tamen circiter parte tertia, ut postea perspectum est, celata atque in oppido retenta, portis patefactis eo die pace sunt usi.

All forms of retineo (conjugation table)

Source: Socratos (socratos.org), a free reader for Ancient Greek and Latin. Grammar from the Perseus Treebank and Morpheus; dictionary entries from Lewis & Short, A Latin Dictionary (Perseus Digital Library, CC BY-SA). Counts are from the texts on Socratos.