solvo
Esperanto
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈsolvo/
- Rhymes: -olvo
Italian
Latin
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈsol.woː/, [ˈsɔɫ.woː]
Verb
solvō (present infinitive solvere, perfect active solvī, supine solūtum); third conjugation
- I loosen, untie, undo; free [up], release, acquit, exempt
- I solve, explain
- I dissolve, break up, separate
- I relax, slacken, weaken
- I cancel, remove, destroy
- I pay [up], fulfil
- I undermine
- I get rid of (feelings)
- I let down (hair)
- I open (a letter)
- I unfurl
- I raise (a siege)
- I dismiss (troops)
- I set sail (ships)
Inflection
Descendants
References
- 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, 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), Leiden, Boston: Brill
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