different between retenue vs retinue

French

Pronunciation

Verb

retenue

1. feminine singular of the past participle of retenir

Noun

retenue f (plural retenues)

1. restraint
2. deduction
3. reservoir
4. (school) detention

Further reading

• “retenue” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Anagrams

• éternue, éternué

Middle English

Alternative forms

• retenu, retinue, retynu, retenew, reteneu

Etymology

From Anglo-Norman retenue.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /r??t?niu?(?)/, /?r?tiniu?(?)/

Noun

retenue (plural retenues)

1. A small group or company of hirelings or people, following a notable person; a retinue.
2. The state of being employed, especially in such a small group.

Descendants

• English: retinue

References

• “reten?e, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-05-15.

English

Etymology

From Middle English retenue, from Old French retenue, past participle of retenir (“retain”). Doublet of ritenuto.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /???t.?.nju?/
• (US) IPA^(key): /???t?n(j)u?/
• ,

Noun

retinue (plural retinues)

1. A group of servants or attendants, especially of someone considered important.

   the queen’s retinues

   • 1915, Edward Plunkett, Lord Dunsany, Fifty-One Tales:

     And not any longer as a king did Winter appear in those streets, as when the city was decked with gleaming white to greet him as a conqueror and he rode in with his glittering icicles and haughty retinue of prancing winds, but he sat there with a little wind at the corner of the street like some old blind beggar with his hungry dog.

   • 12 July 2012, Sam Adams, AV Club Ice Age: Continental Drift

     Preceded by a Simpsons short shot in 3-D—perhaps the only thing more superfluous than a fourth Ice Age movie—Ice Age: Continental Drift finds a retinue of vaguely contemporaneous animals coping with life in the post-Pangaea age.

2. A group of warriors or nobles accompanying a king or other leader; comitatus.
   • 1992, J. A. V. Haney and Eric Dahl, “On Igor’s Campaign” (translation of ????? ? ????? ???????):

     Then Igor looked up at the bright sun and saw all his warriors
     darkened from it by a shadow.
     And Igor said to his retinue:
     “Brothers and companions! It is better to be slain than taken captive.
     Mount, brothers, your swift horses that we may glimpse the Blue Don.”

3. (obsolete) A service relationship.

Related terms

Translations

Anagrams

• neurite, reunite, unitree, uterine

Middle English

Noun

retinue

1. Alternative form of retenue