Detention
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late Middle English (in the sense ‘withholding of what is claimed or due’): from late Latin detentio(n- ), from Latin detinere ‘hold back’ (see detain).
wiktionary
Borrowed from Middle French détention, from Latin detentio, detentionem.
etymonline
detention (n.)
mid-15c., detencioun, "act of keeping back or withholding," from Old French détention (13c.) and directly from Late Latin detentionem (nominative detentio), noun of action from past-participle stem of Latin detinere "hold back, keep off" (see detain).
Sense of "confinement, restraint, state of being detained" is by 1570s (in reference to Mary Queen of Scots). In reference to "a keeping in" as a school punishment, from 1857.
