detentio

Latin

Etymology

From dētineō +‎ -tiō.

Noun

dētentiō f (genitive dētentiōnis); third declension

1. detention (keeping back)

Declension

Third-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	dētentiō	dētentiōnēs
Genitive	dētentiōnis	dētentiōnum
Dative	dētentiōnī	dētentiōnibus
Accusative	dētentiōnem	dētentiōnēs
Ablative	dētentiōne	dētentiōnibus
Vocative	dētentiō	dētentiōnēs

Descendants

• Catalan: detenció
• English: detention
• French: détention
• Italian: detenzione
• Portuguese: detenção
• Romanian: detențiune, detenție
• Spanish: detención

References

• “detentio”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• detentio in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• detentio in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.