solutus

Latin

Etymology

Perfect passive participle of solvō

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈso.lu.tus/, [ˈsɔ.ɫʊ.tʊs]

Adjective

solutus (feminine soluta, neuter solutum); first/second declension

1. unbound, released
2. free, at large

Inflection

First/second declension.

Number	Singular				Plural
Case / Gender	Masculine	Feminine	Neuter		Masculine	Feminine	Neuter
nominative	solutus	soluta	solutum		solutī	solutae	soluta
genitive	solutī	solutae	solutī		solutōrum	solutārum	solutōrum
dative	solutō		solutō		solutīs
accusative	solutum	solutam	solutum		solutōs	solutās	soluta
ablative	solutō	solutā	solutō		solutīs
vocative	solute	soluta	solutum		solutī	solutae	soluta

Descendants

• Catalan: solt, solut (borrowing)
• French: soluté (borrowing)
• English: solute (borrowing)
• Italian: solto, soluto (borrowing)

• Portuguese: solto, soluto (borrowing)
• Sardinian: assoltu
• Spanish: suelto, soluto (borrowing)

References

• solutus in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• solutus in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• du Cange, Charles (1883), “solutus”, in G. A. Louis Henschel, Pierre Carpentier, Léopold Favre, editors, Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (in Latin), Niort: L. Favre
• “solutus” in Félix Gaffiot’s Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette (1934)
• Carl Meissner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • to be never at a loss for something to say: solutum et expeditum esse ad dicendum
    
  • prose: oratio soluta (not prosa) or simply oratio
    
  • with close ranks; with ranks in disorder: confertis, solutis ordinibus