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Italian
Verb
resolvo
- first-person singular present indicative of resolvere
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Latin
Etymology
From re- (“back”) + solvō (“loosen, unbind”).
Pronunciation
Verb
resolvō (present infinitive resolvere, perfect active resolvī, supine resolūtum); third conjugation
- (transitive) to release, loosen, unloose, unbind, disentangle, relax, dissolve
29 BCE – 19 BCE,
Virgil,
Aeneid 4.693-695:
- Tum Iūnō omnipotēns, / Īrim dēmīsit Olympō,
quae luctantem animam nexōsque resolveret artūs.- Then all-powerful Juno , sent down Iris from Olympus, so that she could release struggling soul from its clinging limbs.
- (transitive) to enfeeble
- (transitive) to cancel, dispel
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Descendants
References
- “resolvo”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “resolvo”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- resolvo in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
Portuguese
Verb
resolvo
- first-person singular present indicative of resolver