reticentia

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.