ritenere
Meaning
- (rare, transitive) to hold again
- (transitive) to think, to believe, to consider
- (transitive) to hold back, to restrain, to stop
- (figuratively, transitive) to retain (mentally), to remember, to keep in mind
- (figuratively, literary, transitive) to repress (anger, a desire, a revolt, etc.)
- (transitive) to retain, to withhold (a sum of money)
- (archaic, transitive) to keep (a secret)
- (archaic, transitive) to keep prisoner
- (archaic, transitive) to possess
- (archaic, transitive) to host
Concepts
view as
take it
abstain
Synonyms
tene’
accorgersi di
tenere a mente
Translations
Frequency
Hyphenated as
ri‧te‧né‧re
Pronounced as (IPA)
/ri.teˈne.re/
Etymology
From Latin retinēre.
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