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French
Verb
retenta
- third-person singular past historic of retenter
Anagrams
Latin
Participle
retenta
- inflection of retentus:
- nominative/vocative feminine singular
- nominative/accusative/vocative neuter plural
Participle
retentā
- ablative feminine singular of retentus
References
Polish
Etymology
Learned borrowing from Latin retentā.[1] First attested in 1566.[2]
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -ɛnta
- Syllabification: re‧ten‧ta
Noun
retenta nvir pl
- (obsolete) unpaid debt; remaining sum
Declension
Derived terms
References
Further reading
- retenta in Polish dictionaries at PWN
- Samuel Bogumił Linde (1807–1814) “retenta”, in Słownik języka polskiego
- Aleksander Zdanowicz (1861) “retenta”, in Słownik języka polskiego, Wilno 1861
- J. Karłowicz, A. Kryński, W. Niedźwiedzki, editors (1912), “retenta”, in Słownik języka polskiego (in Polish), volume 5, Warsaw, page 521
- Antoni Waga (1860) “retenta”, in “Abecadłowy spis wyrazów ludowego języka w okolicach Łomży, Wizny i przyległych”, in Kazimierz Władysław Wóycicki, editor, Biblioteka Warszawska (in Polish), volume 2, Warsaw, page 757