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retentus

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

Found 48 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Caesar, De Bello Civili 3.102: … corrogata, cognito Caesaris adventu, ex eo loco discessit et Mytilenas paucis diebus venit Biduum tempestate retentus navibusque aliis additis actuariis in Ciliciam atque inde Cyprum pervenit. Ibi cognoscit consensu omnium I An …

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.