detentus

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Latin

Etymology

Perfect passive participle of dētineō.

Participle

dētentus (feminine dētenta, neuter dētentum); first/second-declension participle

  1. detained, delayed

Declension

First/second-declension adjective.

Number Singular Plural
Case / Gender Masculine Feminine Neuter Masculine Feminine Neuter
Nominative dētentus dētenta dētentum dētentī dētentae dētenta
Genitive dētentī dētentae dētentī dētentōrum dētentārum dētentōrum
Dative dētentō dētentō dētentīs
Accusative dētentum dētentam dētentum dētentōs dētentās dētenta
Ablative dētentō dētentā dētentō dētentīs
Vocative dētente dētenta dētentum dētentī dētentae dētenta

References

  • “detentus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • “detentus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • detentus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
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