solvo
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Esperanto[edit]
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Noun[edit]
solvo (accusative singular solvon, plural solvoj, accusative plural solvojn)
Italian[edit]
Verb[edit]
solvo
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Etymology[edit]
From se- (“away”) + luō (“to untie, set free, separate”).
Pronunciation[edit]
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈsol.u̯oː/, [ˈs̠ɔɫ̪u̯oː]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈsol.vo/, [ˈsɔlvo]
Verb[edit]
solvō (present infinitive solvere, perfect active solvī, supine solūtum); third conjugation
- to loosen, untie, undo; free [up], release, acquit, exempt
- to solve, explain
- to dissolve, break up, separate
- similia similibus solvuntur
- Like dissolves like.
- to relax, slacken, weaken
- to cancel, remove, destroy
- Synonym: cancellō
- to pay up, fulfil
- to undermine
- (figuratively) (emotion, feelings) to get rid of, let go of, release, dismiss, loosen
- to let down (hair)
- to open (a letter)
- to unfurl
- to raise (a siege)
- to dismiss (troops)
- to set sail (ships)
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References[edit]
- “solvo”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “solvo”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- solvo in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette
- Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
- to awake: somno solvi
- to perform the last rites for a person: iusta facere, solvere alicui
- to decide, determine a question: quaestionem solvere
- to open a letter: epistulam solvere, aperire, resignare (of Romans also linum incīdere)
- to accomplish, pay a vow: vota solvere, persolvere, reddere
- to pay money: pecuniam solvere
- to repay a loan: pecuniam creditam solvere
- to pay one's debts: nomina (cf. sect. XIII. 3) solvere, dissolvere, exsolvere
- to pay one's old debts by making new: versurā solvere, dissolvere (Att. 5. 15. 2)
- to free from legal obligations: legibus solvere
- to suffer punishment: poenas dependere, expendere, solvere, persolvere
- to weigh anchor, sail: solvere (B. G. 4. 28)
- to weigh anchor, sail: navem (naves) solvere
- the ships sail from the harbour: naves ex portu solvunt
- to awake: somno solvi
- De Vaan, Michiel (2008) Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7)[2], Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN
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