reticentia

Interlingua

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.

	singular	plural
nominative	reticentia	reticentiae
genitive	reticentiae	reticentiārum
dative	reticentiae	reticentiīs
accusative	reticentiam	reticentiās
ablative	reticentiā	reticentiīs
vocative	reticentia	reticentiae

Descendants

• Catalan: reticència
• French: réticence
• Galician: reticencia
• Italian: reticenza
• Occitan: reticéncia
• Portuguese: reticência
• Romanian: reticență
• Spanish: reticencia

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.