reticentia

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Noun

reticentia (plural reticentias)

  1. reticence
  2. (rhetoric) apophasis

Latin

Etymology

reticēns +‎ -ia

Noun

reticentia f (genitive reticentiae); first declension

  1. silence (keeping silent)
  2. aposiopesis

Declension

First-declension noun.

Case Singular Plural
Nominative reticentia reticentiae
Genitive reticentiae reticentiārum
Dative reticentiae reticentiīs
Accusative reticentiam reticentiās
Ablative reticentiā reticentiīs
Vocative reticentia reticentiae

Descendants

Participle

reticentia

  1. nominative/accusative/vocative neuter plural of reticēns

References

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