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exsolvo

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Latin

Alternative forms

Etymology

From ex + solvō.

Pronunciation

Verb

exsolvō (present infinitive exsolvere, perfect active exsolvī, supine exsolūtum); third conjugation

  1. to unloose, release, free
  2. to unbind, untie, undo
  3. (figurative) to renounce, abandon, relinquish, leave behind
    • 106 BCE – 43 BCE, Cicero, Letters to Friends:
      propter molestissimās occupātiōnēs meās, quibus sī mē relaxārō (nam ut plānē exsolvam nōn postulō), tē ipsum, quī multōs annōs nihil aliud commentāris, docēbō profectō quid sit hūmāniter vīvere.
      Due to my most troublesome duties which if I slacken (for to be loose of them entirely is more than I can ask), then, no question about it, I shall teach you the art of civilized living, to which you have been giving your undivided attention for years!

Conjugation

Descendants

  • Italian: sciogliere
  • Sicilian: sciògghiri
  • Portuguese: exsolver
  • English: exolve, exsolve

References

  • exsolvo”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • exsolvo”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • exsolvo”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  • Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894), Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
    • to pay one's debts: aes alienum dissolvere, exsolvere
    • to pay one's debts: nomina (cf. sect. XIII. 3) solvere, dissolvere, exsolvere
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