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Confidence votes 319K. The French to English translation for the word 'detente' is 'relaxation'. The word can also mean lessening, thaw, or trigger. There is also a detente in Spanish, which can mean detain, arrest, or restrain.
1620s, Tuscan dialectal ditto (in) the said (month or year), literary Italian detto, past participle of dire to say, from Latin dicere (see diction). Originally used in Italian to avoid repetition of month names in a series of dates; generalized meaning of same as above first recorded in English 1670s.