reticentia
τὰ σῦκα σῦκα, τὴν σκάφην δὲ σκάφην ὀνομάζειν → call a spade a spade | speak the truth | speak straight from the shoulder | give it straight from the shoulder | give the straight goods | not to mince matters | not to mince words | not mince words | call things by their right names | call a spade a spade and a shovel a shovel | call a shovel a shovel | call a spade a spade, not a big spoon
Latin > English (Lewis & Short)
rĕtĭcentĭa: ae, f. reticeo,
I a keeping silent, silence (rare but good prose): quid taces? enicas me miserum tuā reticentiā, Plaut. Merc. 5, 2, 52; Pac. ap. Non. 1, 31 (Trag. Rel. p. 94 Rib.): posterorum, Cic. Phil. 14, 12, 33: a jurisconsultis etiam reticentiae poena est constituta (viz. as to a defect in a thing sold), id. Off. 3, 16, 65.—
II In rhetor.,= aposiopesis, a pause in the midst of a speech, Cic. de Or. 3, 53, 205; Quint. 9, 1, 31; 9, 2, 54; 57.
Latin > French (Gaffiot 2016)
rĕtĭcentĭa,¹⁴ æ, f.,
1 action de garder une chose par devers soi, de la taire ; silence : Pl. Merc. 893 ; Cic. Phil. 14, 33 ; Off. 3, 65
2 [rhét.] réticence ou aposiopèse : Cic. de Or. 3, 205 ; Quint.
Latin > German (Georges)
reticentia, ae, f. (reticeo), das Schweigen, Stillschweigen, I) im allg., Ggstz. locutio, Cic. de off. 1, 146: ni hunc ad malam aetatem adiungas cruciatum reticentiā, Pacuv. tr. 278: enicas (enecas) me miserum tuā reticentiā, Plaut. merc. 893: quod vestra virtus neque oblivione eorum qui nunc sunt, neque reticentiā posterorum sepulta esse poterit, Cic. Phil. 14, 33. – poena reticentiae, d.i. für das Verschweigen dessen, was man sagen sollte, z B. eines Fehlers beim Verkaufe eines Gegenstandes, Cic. de off. 3, 65. – II) als Redefigur, das Stilischweigen mitten in der Rede, das Abbrechen, griech. ἀποσιώπησις, Cic. de or. 3, 205. Quint. 9, 2, 54 u. 57. Aquil. Rom. § 5.
