reticentia
Dictionary entries
- Entry →reticeo, reticere, reticui, -:
Verb · 2nd conjugation
- Frequency:
- Common
- Dictionary:
- Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
keep silent; give no reply; refrain from speaking/mentioning; leave unsaid;
acc. pl. pres. act. part.nom. pl. pres. act. part.voc. pl. pres. act. part.
Examples
Mercator
Titus Maccius Plautus
"...videris. quid taces? dic. enicas me miserum tua reticentia. EVT. Non longe hinc abest a nobis. CHAR. Quin..."Liber IX
Marcus Fabius Quintilianus (Quintilian) from INSTITUTIONES
"...maxime movent, similitudo et exemplum: digestio, interpellatio, contentio, reticentia, commendatio: XXXII. vox quaedam libera atque etiam effrenatior augendi..."