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Interlingua
Noun
reticentia (plural reticentias)
- reticence
- (rhetoric) apophasis
Latin
Etymology
reticēns + -ia
Noun
reticentia f (genitive reticentiae); first declension
- silence (keeping silent)
- aposiopesis
Declension
First-declension noun.
Descendants
Participle
reticentia
- 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.