retinere

retinere is a Latin form of retineo, meaning “hold back, keep”. It is the present active infinitive.

Found 176 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Caesar, De Bello Civili 1.2: … e qua esset armorum causa: timere Caesarem ereptis ab eo duabus legionibus, ne ad eius periculum reservare et retinere eas ad urbem Pompeius videretur; ut M. Rufus, qui sententiam Calidii paucis fere mutatis rebus sequebatur. Hi …

Terence, Phormio 1.3.175: Retinere, amare, amittere. Ego in eumn incidi infelix locum

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.