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+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=Plautus|origins=la teneō}}
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+ ==Pronunciation==
+ * IPA (Classical): [deːˈtɪ.ne.oː]^(Wiktionary)
+ * IPA (Ecclesiastical): [deˈtiː.ne.o]^(Wiktionary)
+ 
+ ==Forms==
+ '''dētineō''' (present infinitive dētinēre, perfect active dētinuī, supine dētentum); second conjugation^(Wiktionary)
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+ ==Etymology==
+ It is from [[dē-]] “away” and [[teneō]] “to hold”.^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)^(Etymonline)
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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==
+ The OLD's earliest citation is from Plautus, of keeping someone from going.^(OLD 2012) Köbler dates Plautus c. 250–184 BC.^(Köbler 2010)
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+ ==Semantic evolution==
+ It meant to keep someone from going, detain, as in Plautus, and the ''Rhetorica ad Herennium'' uses it of keeping possession of a thing.^(OLD 2012) In Cicero it meant to occupy someone's attention, in Celsus to keep in a condition, and in Ovid to keep an activity going, with ''sē dētinēre'' to keep oneself alive.^(OLD 2012)
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+ In Ecclesiastical Latin it meant to withhold, detain, engage.^(Stelten 1995) It survives in Italian ''detenere'', French ''détenir'' and Spanish ''detener'', and through Old French it gave [[en|detain]] in the early 15th century.^(Wiktionary)^(Etymonline)
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+ ==Timeline==
+ * c. 250–184 BC – Plautus uses it of detaining.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)
+ * 86/82 BC – The ''Rhetorica ad Herennium'' uses it of retaining.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)
+ * 81–43 BC – Cicero uses it of occupying.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)
+ * early 15th century – English ''detain'' is recorded.^(Etymonline)
+ 
+ ==Meanings==
+ ===Verb===
+ # To [[m|en|detain]], hold back.^(OLD 2012)
+ # To keep possession of.^(OLD 2012)
+ # To occupy.^(OLD 2012)
+ # To keep (in a condition); to keep going.^(OLD 2012)
+ 
+ ==Word family==
+ * [[dētentātiō]]
+ * [[dētentiō]]
+ * [[detento]]
+ * [[detentor]]
+ * [[detentus]]
+ 
+ ==Related words==
+ * [[abstineō]]
+ * [[attineō]]
+ * [[circumteneō]]
+ * [[contineō]]
+ * [[distineō]]
+ * [[obtineō]]
+ * [[pertineō]]
+ * [[retineō]]
+ * [[sustineō]]
+ * [[teneō]]
+ * [[en|detain]]
+ * [[en|detention]]
+ 
+ ==References==
+ {{reflist}}