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exsolvo
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Latin
Alternative forms
Etymology
Pronunciation
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [ɛksˈsɔɫ.woː]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [eksˈsɔl.vo]
Verb
exsolvō (present infinitive exsolvere, perfect active exsolvī, supine exsolūtum); third conjugation
- to unloose, release, free
- to unbind, untie, undo
- (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!
- 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.
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
- to pay one's debts: aes alienum dissolvere, exsolvere
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