reter

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

• IPA^(key): [reˈteːɾ]

reter (first-person singular present reteño, first-person singular preterite retiven, past participle retido)
reter (first-person singular present retenho, first-person singular preterite retivem or retive, past participle retido, reintegrationist norm)

1. (transitive) to retain, hold, keep
   • 1289, A. López Ferreiro, editor, 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

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2. (transitive) to withhold

• Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “reteer”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “retee”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: ILG
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “reter”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “reter”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega

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. (pronominal) to restrain oneself

• retenção
• retenida
• retentivo