English → Latin
“retainer” in Latin
assectorto attend someone eagerly, accompany, follow, wait upon, escort; to follow a woman, seek after, courtassĕclaa followerarrhadeposit, down payment; pledgearrhabōmoney given to ratify a contract; a deposit or pledgeegō̆I; first person singular personal pronoun, nominative case
Riddle & Arnold A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon, 1864
retainer
One who retains, by circumlocution with the verbs in To RETAINE.
One that is retained in anybody’s pay [Vid: DOMESTIC.]
A follower, assectator, assecla (assectator in a good, assecla in a bad sense: Vid: CREATURE).
The retainers of anybody (i. e., his hangers on), qui faciunt or sentiunt cum aliquo; qui stant cum or ab aliquo: our retainers, nostri: qui nobiscum stant: he can depend or reckon on those that are his retainers, habet certos sui studiosos. If = Client, Vid:
A fee to secure counsel for a trial, arrha or arrhabo (Plaut., and Gaj. Dig.).
Quick answer
- What is the Latin word for retainer?
- The usual Latin words for “retainer” are assector, assĕcla, arrha; also arrhabō, egō̆. The right choice depends on the sense; see the distinctions below.
Entry from J. E. Riddle & T. K. Arnold, A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon (rev. C. Anthon, New York: Harper, 1864), digitised by Fergus J. P. Walsh, CC BY-SA 4.0; Latin markup adapted by latindictionary.co.