detineo

From dē- +‎ teneō (“hold; restrain”).

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [deːˈtɪ.ne.oː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [d̪eˈt̪iː.ne.o]

dētineō (present infinitive dētinēre, perfect active dētinuī, supine dētentum); second conjugation

1. to hold or keep off or back, detain, check

   Synonyms: refrēnō, arceō, prohibeō, impediō, retineō, perimō, officiō, interclūdō, intersaepiō, cohibeō, exclūdō, obstō, saepiō, reprimō, premō

   Antonyms: līberō, eximō, absolvō, excipiō, exonerō, ēmittō

   • 29 BCE – 19 BCE, Virgil, Aeneid 4.84-85:

     [...] aut gremiō Ascanium, genitōris imāgine captā,
     dētinet, īnfandum sī fallere possit amōrem.

     Or else [Dido], so taken by Ascanius’ resemblance of his father, detains [the boy] in her embrace, as if she can deceive [her] unspeakable love [for Aeneas].

2. to delay, hinder, lengthen; occupy, engage, stop

   Synonyms: retardō, tardō, moror, cūnctor, differō

• dētentiō
• dētentō
• dētentor
• dētentus

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