retenir

Meaning

1. to retain, hold
2. to retain, hold
3. to remember
4. to accept (que that)
5. to uphold
6. to restrain oneself, hold back

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ʁə.t(ə).niʁ/

Etymology

Inherited from Middle French retenir, from Old French retenir, from Vulgar Latin *retenīre, from Latin retinēre, from re- + teneō (“to hold”).