RESERVE Copy link • RESERVE 1. v. To lay up, servare: reservare (to lay by or keep in store for a particular purpose, to refrain from using anything until a certain season or occasion occur): conservare (to keep in good order, let alone, refrain from injuring): reponere: seponere (to put aside for future use): condere: recondere (to lay by, or in store; e.g., fruit). (The words are found in this connection and order.) condere et reponere; reponere et recondere. To reserve for another time, in aliud tempus reservare or differre. To keep back, retinere (PROP.), celare, occultare, tegere, dissimulare aliquid: comprimere (to conceal). 2. s. A keeping back, retentio; usually by the verbs. To keep in reserve; Vid: the verb. Studied silence, taciturnitas (silence): modestia, verecundia (modesty): dissimulatio (not telling all that one knows): cautio (caution). Without reserve, aperte: ingenue: libere: plane: simpliciter: non timide: to speak with reserve, verecundius loqui de aliqua re: to practise reserve, tergiversari (Liv., Cic.): veram animi sententiam celare, premere: that practices reserve, tectus: occultus: dissimulator: they practiced no reserve, quid sentirent non reticuerunt (Cic., Att., 13, 27, 1). A body of troops kept back, subsidia, -orum (neuter): copiae subsidiariae: (milites) subsidiarii (general term): acies subsidiaria (drawn up in order of battle). To be in reserve, pro subsidio consistere: in subsidiis esse: to appoint a reserve, in subsidio ponere or collocare.