reter

From Old Galician and Old Portuguese retẽer (13th century, Cantigas de Santa Maria), from Latin retinēre, present active infinitive of retineō (“detain”).

• IPA^(key): [reˈteɾ]

reter (first-person singular present reteño, first-person singular preterite retiven, past participle retido)

1. (transitive) to retain, hold, keep
   • 1289, A. López Ferreiro (ed.), Fueros municipales de Santiago y de su tierra. Madrid: Ediciones Castilla, page 114:

     Et tódalas outras cousas que aquí non son escriptas nen declaradas et as que aquí son escriptas et declaradas, o cabidoo et os vigarios dos canbeadores rreteen en sy o poder para senpre para corregeo et declarao commo lles aprouuer et viren que seerá bem et a prol de todos ontre sy et os ouliuez

2. (transitive) to withhold

• “reteer” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006–2022.
• “retee” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006–2018.
• “reter” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
• “reter” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.

From Latin retinēre.

• Hyphenation: re‧ter

reter (first-person singular present retenho, first-person singular preterite retive, past participle retido)

1. (transitive) to retain, hold
2. (transitive) to withhold
3. (takes a reflexive pronoun) to restrain oneself

• retenção
• retenida
• retentivo