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English
Etymology
Noun
resolver (plural resolvers)
- One who or that which resolves.
- Courts are resolvers of disputes.
- On the Internet, a DNS resolver maps domain names to IP addresses.
- A device whose electrical output is proportional to the angular position of an object such as a rotor.
Old French
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin resolvere, present active infinitive of resolvō as if it were a first group verb. Compare the inherited résoudre.
Verb
resolver
- (reflexive, se resolver) to resolve oneself; to become resolved
- 1377, Bernard de Gordon, Fleur de lis de medecine (a.k.a. lilium medicine), page 156 of this essay:
- Fleume toumente fort car la matiere est moulte visqueuse et pour ce elle se resolve legierement et interpole petit car l’umeur est moult apre et l’est a putrefaction pour cause d’umidité.
- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
Conjugation
This verb conjugates as a first-group verb ending in -er. The forms that would normally end in *-v, *-vs, *-vt are modified to f, s, t. Old French conjugation varies significantly by date and by region. The following conjugation should be treated as a guide.
Conjugation of resolver (see also Appendix:Old French verbs)
| simple | compound | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| infinitive | resolver | avoir resolvé | |||||
| gerund | en resolvant | gerund of avoir + past participle | |||||
| present participle | resolvant | ||||||
| past participle | resolvé | ||||||
| person | singular | plural | |||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | jo | tu | il | nos | vos | il | |
| simple tenses |
present | resolf | resolves | resolve | resolvons | resolvez | resolvent |
| imperfect | resolvoie, resolveie, resolvoe, resolveve | resolvoies, resolveies, resolvoes, resolveves | resolvoit, resolveit, resolvot, resolveve | resolviiens, resolviens | resolviiez, resolviez | resolvoient, resolveient, resolvoent, resolvevent | |
| preterite | resolvai | resolvas | resolva | resolvames | resolvastes | resolverent | |
| future | resolverai | resolveras | resolvera | resolverons | resolveroiz, resolvereiz, resolverez | resolveront | |
| conditional | resolveroie, resolvereie | resolveroies, resolvereies | resolveroit, resolvereit | resolveriiens, resolveriens | resolveriiez, resolveriez | resolveroient, resolvereient | |
| compound tenses |
present perfect | present tense of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect | imperfect tense of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| past anterior | preterite tense of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| future perfect | future tense of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| conditional perfect | conditional tense of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| subjunctive | que jo | que tu | qu’il | que nos | que vos | qu’il | |
| simple tenses |
present | resolf | resols | resolt | resolvons | resolvez | resolvent |
| imperfect | resolvasse | resolvasses | resolvast | resolvissons, resolvissiens | resolvissoiz, resolvissez, resolvissiez | resolvassent | |
| compound tenses |
past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | tu | – | nos | vos | – | |
| — | resolve | — | resolvons | resolvez | — | ||
Portuguese
Etymology
From Latin resolvere (“to release”), from re- (“again”) + solvō (“to loosen, to unbind”).
Pronunciation
- Hyphenation: re‧sol‧ver
Verb
resolver (first-person singular present resolvo, first-person singular preterite resolvi, past participle resolvido)
- (transitive) to solve (to find an answer or solution)
- Synonyms: decifrar, solucionar, solver
- Você conseguiu resolver o problema?
- Could you solve the problem?
- (optionally takes a reflexive pronoun, auxiliary with a and a verb in the impersonal infinitive) to decide to do something
- Synonyms: decidir, deliberar, determinar, escolher
- Resolvi-me a ir embora. ― I decided to leave.
- Resolvi ir embora. ― I decided to leave.
- (transitive) to dissolve; to dissipate
- (transitive) to annul (to formally revoke the validity of)
- (takes a reflexive pronoun) to fade away
- (takes a reflexive pronoun, transitive with em) to consist
Conjugation
Conjugation of resolver (See Appendix:Portuguese verbs)
Quotations
For quotations using this term, see Citations:resolver.
Related terms
Spanish
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin resolvere. Cognate with English resolve.
Pronunciation
Verb
resolver (first-person singular present resuelvo, first-person singular preterite resolví, past participle resuelto)
- to resolve, to sort out, to settle, to address, to tackle, to overcome, to iron out
- Eso lo resuelve. ― That settles it.
- to solve, to figure out, to work out, to crack
- to decide
- to meet (e.g. demands, needs, requirements)
Conjugation
Conjugation of resolver (irregular; o-ue alternation) (See Appendix:Spanish verbs)
Selected combined forms of resolver (irregular; o-ue alternation)
These forms are generated automatically and may not actually be used. Pronoun usage varies by region.
Derived terms
- resolver el caso (“to crack the case”)
Further reading
- “resolver”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014