ritenere

Meaning

  1. (rare, transitive) to hold again
  2. (transitive) to think, to believe, to consider
  3. (transitive) to hold back, to restrain, to stop
  4. (figuratively, transitive) to retain (mentally), to remember, to keep in mind
  5. (figuratively, literary, transitive) to repress (anger, a desire, a revolt, etc.)
  6. (transitive) to retain, to withhold (a sum of money)
  7. (archaic, transitive) to keep (a secret)
  8. (archaic, transitive) to keep prisoner
  9. (archaic, transitive) to possess
  10. (archaic, transitive) to host

Frequency

24k
Hyphenated as
ri‧te‧né‧re
Pronounced as (IPA)
/ri.teˈne.re/
Etymology

From Latin retinēre.

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