deter
Portuguese
verb
Definitions
- to stop, arrest, detain, restrain
- to deter
- to withhold
Etymology
Inherited from Old Portuguese detẽer inherited from Latin dētinēre.
Origin
Latin
dētinēre
Gloss
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- detain English
- detainable English
- detainee English
- detainer English
- detainest English
- detaineth English
- detainment English
- redetain English
- detinēre Latin
- dētinēre Latin
- detención Spanish, Castilian
- detener Spanish, Castilian
- *ten- Proto-Indo-European
- deteni Esperanto
- detenir Catalan, Valencian
- deter Galician
- detẽer Old Portuguese